Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus was a Roman senator of the second century. He was ordinary consul as the colleague of Quintus Articuleius Paetinus in 123.[1] Subsequent to his consulate, Priscus was proconsular governor of Asia in 138 and 139.[2] He is known primarily through inscriptions.
Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus | |
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 Military diploma RMM 22, dated April 14th 123, attesting him as ordinary consul | |
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While Ronald Syme suggested that Priscus was the son of Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus, suffect consul in 92, J. Schied has shown this is unlikely;[3] nevertheless, Priscus was a member of the patrician class.[4] Further there is "no doubt" that Priscus is the father of Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus, suffect consul around 145 and ordinary consul in 168.[5]
The Venuleii family owned the magnificent villa-estate at Massaciuccoli.
References
edit- ^ Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl, "Neue Diplome mit den Namen von Konsuln und Statthaltern," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 187 (2013), p. 282
- ^ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 211
- ^ Scheid, "Note sur les Venuleii Aproniani", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 52 (1983), pp. 225-228
- ^ Syme, Some Arval Brethren (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), p. 38 n
- ^ Olli Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 89