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Eight Consuls from Patavium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

Ronald Syme
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Otto consoli di patavium

Tra il 37 e il 101, si possono individuare otto consoli patavini. La loro carriera e il loro ruolo sono esaminati in relazione alla loro città, alla regione cispadana, ai temi della vita sociale e del governo centrale. Uno solo di essi emerge come personalità di spicco, Thrasea Paetus, che però non è tipico. Gli altri sono tranquilli uomini convenzionali. Tre sono Ducenii, tre Arruntii.

Si fanno supposizioni su altri due o tre consoli. Commenti inerenti sono forniti sullo studioso Asconius Pedianus — e su altri Asconii, in particolare sull'infausto Asconius Sardus, forse console nei primi anni di Traiano. Si discute della nomenclatura locale Patavina e si notano i contrasti con altre città cispadane, specialmente con Verona e Brixia. Nel contribuire senatori e consoli, Patavium va in declino

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 51 , November 1983 , pp. 102 - 124
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1 Strabo V, p. 213, cf. III, p. 169.

2 Strabo V, p. 216.

3 CIL V. 4368; 4372 f. (military knights); 4123 (L. Arrius Secundus: no occupation specified).

4 CIL V. 2791; 2828; AE 1953, 33. Each had the sole post of tribunus militum.

5 CIL V. 2819–25.

6 Since alleged by Porphyrio on the ‘Alfenus vafer’ of Sat. I. 3. 130. Against, E. Fraenkel, Horace (1957), 89 f.

7 W. Schulze, LE 277: to which add P. Sepullius P. f. Tacitus (V. 3037). For the monetalis, T. P. Wiseman, New Men in the Roman Senate (1971), 392. For the amphora stamps of the Sepullii, M. H. Callender, Roman Amphorae (1965), 217; Harris, W. V., ZPE 27 (1977), 287Google Scholar.

8 For the full detail see now G. Alföldy in the Acta of the Rome Conference on Senators (May 1981): Epigrafia e ordine senatorio, forthcoming.

9 AE 1947, 2. Observe however Samothrace II. 1 (1960), nr. 40Google Scholar. For these consulates see also Gallivan, P. A., CQ XXXI (1981), 200Google Scholar.

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11 CIL V. 2828; AE 1953, 33.

12 Compare M'. Vibius Balbinus (ILS 937).

13 As noted under PIR 1, P 76.

14 It would be hazardous to invoke a Syrian legion, XII Fulminata, in turbulent Africa for a time in the last decade of the reign (ILS 8966: Thugga).

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16 ILS 190. For Fulcinius Trio, AE 1953, 88.

17 Comparable to C. Laecanius Bassus from Pola (suff. 40), praetor in 32 (PIR 2, L 30). For the idle fancy that Papinius had been an adherent of Seianus, observe, with other inadequacies, RE XVIII, 983.

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23 For what it may be worth, Patavium yields freedmen of a C. Fannius (V. 2951).

24 Fannia was his second wife, cf. PIR 2, H 59 f.

25 For appropriate caution, G. E. F. Chilver, Cisalpine Gaul (1940), 105; R. Syme, Tacitus (1958), 559, n. 1; A. N. Sherwin-White in his Commentary (1965), ad loc. On the other hand ‘videtur’ in PIR 2, J 771, cf. 730 (on the brother).

26 CIL V. 7783. Observe also C. Atilius C. f. Bradua, who paved the forum at Libarna (7427 = ILS 5354). Senators apart, that cognomen is portentously rare. The same holds for ‘Barea’ (enigmatic) and for ‘Chaerea’ (Etruscan).

27 In towns of Italy only libertine persons at Mediolanum (V. 5762), Fanum (XI. 6269), Puteoli (X. 2106)—and an African sailor at Misenum (X. 3244).

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36 Atina is the patria of the illustrious L. Arruntii, the consuls of 22 B.C. and A.D. 6.

37 Ann. XIII. 10. 1. To PIR 2 A 1205 can be added the gravestone of ‘As]coni Q.. f. Labeonis,’ a local pontifex, a boy who died at the age of fifteen (V. 2848).

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49 Quadratus was quaestor in A.D. 14 (ILS 970: Casinum).

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51 For examples, see the Acta of the Rome Conference (May, 1981): Epigrafia e ordine senatorio, forthcoming.

52 M. Corbier, op. cit. 110 f.

53 TLL, Onom. No specimens in CIL V, apart from 6956a (Augusta Taurinorum). M. Cusinius, the Caesarian senator (ILS 965: Tusculum), has the tribe ‘Velina’, which suggests an origin from Picenum, cf. T. P. Wiseman, op. cit. 228. The tribe would not exclude Aquileia.

54 CIL V. 8810288 (twelve specimens). The lady is a Sabinia. For that name, Schulze (LE 222) cited CIE 869 = XI. 2420 (Clusíum); and for ‘Sabo’, CIE 4840 (ib.). Other explanations avail.

55 CIL V. 2998; 2368.

56 CIL V, Verona (3253), Aquileia (3615), and eastwards at Capodistria (503). Observe two obscure persons in Fronto (PIR 1, S 140 f.).

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58 Thus, firmly, G. E. F. Chilver, Cisalpine Gaul (1940), 109 ff.

59 CIL V. 4181; 4296; 4401; 4419–22 (=ILS 6099: Val. Trompia). By inadvertence Silius Italicus was assumed Patavine in Some Arval Brethren (1980), 79.

60 No praenomen in RE III, 1792. But the Epicurean is ‘T. Catius’ in the commentary of Shackleton Bailey on Ad fam. XV. 16. 1.

61 See JRS XXXIX (1949), 124 f.Google Scholar: praenomina written out by Tacitus but abridged by a recent editor (H. Fuchs).

62 As assumed, with no supporting argument, in Tacitus (1958), 88, n. 7.

63 His freedmen are ‘Ti. Caesii’, cf. PIR 2, C 194.

64 CIL XV. 7302.

65 For the distribution of the name, Birley, A. R., Britannia IV (1973), 181Google Scholar (on Petillius Cerialis).

66 Tacitus, , Hist. I. 90Google Scholar. 2. Compare the verdict in Quintilian (XII. 5. 5). The Galerii come from Ariminum, cf. Pliny, , NH X. 50Google Scholar. Not noted in PIR 2, G 25 or G 30.

67 Plutarch, Galba 14 f.

68 Assumed Celtic by Schulze (LE 21), but with no other specimens. The name is absent from the Italian volumes of CIL. Sporadic examples occur elsewhere. Thus XII. 2591 (Geneva); III. 2279 (in Dalmatia).

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69 Thus, on the basis of XIV. 3471 (Tibur), in Historia V (1956), 210Google Scholar = Roman Papers (1979), 322.

70 Adduced by Eck, W., ZPE 42 (1981), 227 fGoogle Scholar.

71 Tacitus (1958), 386 f.

72 Both Crispus, Vibius and Paetus, Caesennius share the unexplained prefix ‘L. Iunius’, cf. JRS LXVII (1977), 45Google Scholar.

73 Thus G. E. F. Chilver, Cisalpine Gaul (1940), 86.

74 See ‘Partisans of Galba’, Historia XXXI (1982), 478Google Scholarf.

75 That is, in 73/4, succeeding the triennial tenure of Eprius Marcellus (ILS 992).

76 PIR 2, J 624, where he is assumed the son of L. Julius Vestinus, the Prefect of Egypt (622). Rather the son (by birth or by adoption) of a Marcus Julius Vestinus.

77 ILS 6618; 7833. See further Some Arval Brethren (1980), 23.

78 Stella is assumed patrician, e.g. by Groag (A 1151); R. Syme, Tacitus (1958), 666. Beneficiaries of Claudius Caesar are not excluded. Some lacked high distinction, despite the language of Tacitus (XI. 25. 2). Observe M. Helvius Geminus (ILS 975).

79 Suetonius, , Titus 9. 1Google Scholar. Though plausible for C. Silius (the paramour of Messallina), that status is not proved by Juvenal X. 332.

80 ILS 8821 (Xanthos), supplemented by AE 1972, 572 (Ephesus).

81 Balland, A., Fouilles de Xanthos VII (1981), 157Google Scholar.

82 That is to say, the pair revealed by AE 1947, 2 (Samothrace). If the pair were put early in the reign of Hadrian, a hypothesis emerges: M. Arruntius Claudianus from Xanthos as not only the first Lycian senator but the first consul, displacing Ti. Claudius Agrippinus (C 776).

83 JRS LVIII (1968), 139Google Scholar = RP (1979), 701.

84 Hist. I. 31. 2; CIL X. 8023 f.

85 In LE 237 Schulze adduced ‘Supri’ (CIE 53: Volaterrae); ‘Zupre’ (2251: Clusium). Also C. Subernius from Cales in Campania (Ad fam. IX. 13. 1Google Scholar).

86 CIL V. 7917. He was patronus and flamen provindae.

87 Valentia (Valenza) was east of Hasta, north-west of Dertona. It has yielded only five other inscriptions. For the problems of Valentia in relation to Forum Fulvii see Chilver, op. cit. 66 f.

88 Matching the two documents in RE V, 1755 (1903), Groag said ‘nicht unmöglich’. He there assumed that the senator was a son of Ducenius Proculus (suff. 87), taken in adoption by the magistrate C. Asconius Sardus (ILS 6692).

89 CIL V. 1228 (Aquileia); 7538 (near Aquae Statiellae, in ‘Regio IX’).

90 C. Cestius Gallus (cos. 35), C. Cestius Gallus (suff. 42), N. Cestius (suff. 55). They might be from Praeneste, or Campanian.

91 For some desperate cases, JRS LVIII (1968), 143Google Scholar = RP (1979), 707.

92 Thus the army commander Priscus, (Epp. II. 13Google Scholar) can now be identified as L. Neratius Priscus (suff. 97), and legate of Germania Inferior: thanks to the revision of ILS 1034 (Saepinum) effected by Camodeca, G., Atti Ace. Napoli LXXXVII (1976). 19 ffGoogle Scholar. (whence AE 1976, 195).

93 Cited by Eck, W., Epigraphica XLI (1979), 82Google Scholar.

94 Tacitus (1958), 805.

95 C7L V. 4364, cf. 4363. Further a ‘Q. Cornel[’ was a magistrate there (4412), but he might be identical with Q. Cornelius Q. f. Fronto (4413).

96 Balland, A., Fouilles de Xanthos VII (1981), 121Google Scholar. For a Priscus legate of Galatia early in the reign of Tiberius see Grant, M., Num. Chron. X (1950), 43Google Scholar.

97 As shown by the details in Dessau, , ILS Vol. III, p. 410 fGoogle Scholar.

98 Pliny, , Pan. 9. 2Google Scholar.

99 For the statistics, P. Kneissl, Die Siegestitulatur der römischen Kaiser (1969), 70.

100 Tacitus (1958), 646, cf. JRS XLVII (1957), 134Google Scholar = Ten Studies in Tacitus (1970), 115.

101 For this incident, Harris, W. V., ZPE 27 (1977), 283 ffGoogle Scholar.

102 As asseverated by Cicero, , Phil. XII. 10Google Scholar.

103 Macrobius I. 11. 22. Harmony was later advertised by ‘concordalis’ in the title of municipal seviri. For example, ‘L. Ducen./Atimeti/Patavi Aug. Conc./Pyrallidi lib.’ (ILS 6693: between Patavium and Ateste).

101 Tacitus (1958), 664. Add now M. Hirrius Fronto Neratius Pansa, consul suffect c. 75 (AE 1968, 145).

105 The Ignolus of ILS 1039, a governor of Galatia, was probably consul early in Hadrian‘s reign.

106 Pseudo-Acro on Horace, , Sat. I. 2. 41Google Scholar.

107 Down to IX. 90, if not further. For the detail, F 170. Not identical with the author of the Argonautica, as held possible in Tacitus (1958), 609 n. 7. He may be provincial. Observe L. Julius Ursus Valerius Flaccus (PIR l, J 418), who is probably L. Valerius Flaccus (suff. 128).

108 Sardus, Unless be conceded (Epp. IX. 31Google Scholar).

109 JRS LVIII (1968), 136Google Scholar = RP (1979), 696.

110 Tacitus (1958), 801.

111 Gordon, M. L., JRS XXVI (1936), 145 ffGoogle Scholar.

112 Koestermann, E., Athenaeum XLIII (1965), 167 ff.Google Scholar; Archivo Veneto LXVII (1965), 5 ffGoogle Scholar. A generous exposition is furnished by Borzsàk, S., RE Supp. XI (1968), 379–84Google Scholar.

113 Despite the conclusion of Borzsàk, op. cit. 384: ‘so kann doch Koestermanns umsichtige Schlussfolgerung (206) hingenommen werden’.

114 Thus Q., Minicius Q., f. Pob. Macer (V. 4443, cf. 4292: Brixia): presumably related to Pliny's Brixian friend Minicius Macrinus, parent of the senator Minicius Acilianus (I. 14. 5).

115 RE XVII, 864 f.; 897 f. For the relations between the two cities, M. Frézouls-Fasciato, Mél. Grenier (1962), 689 ff.

116 A sister of P. Acilius. At Brixia P. Acilius P. f. Fab. Florus set up a statue to Aequitas (AE 1954, 75).

117 CIL VIII. 2754 (Lambaesis). It registers the tribe Sabatina—and, exceptional in a person of rank, the city.

118 It is absent from Strabo—for whom Tergeste was still only a fort or a village (V, p. 215; VI, p. 314). Cf. Chilver, op. cit. 54 (on the geographer's obsolescence).

119 A. Calderini, Aquileia Romana (1930), 574. The mixed population is amply documented in that book. The veteran colony Ateste has eight specimens of names ending in ‘-enus’.

120 Chilver, op. cit. 82 ff., with other instances.

121 Lejeune, M., Ateste (Firenze, 1978), 135Google Scholar.

122 CIL V. 2906. For the name ‘Ostiala’, compare ‘]ni/M. f. Ostialae Galleniae’ on the early stele published in Padova Preromana (the Mostra of 1976), 48, cf. 304 with pl. 83.

For the Venetic name ‘Frema’ on V. 2906, cf. ‘Frema Rutilia P. f. Sociaca’ (I2. 2781: Ateste).

123 CIL V. 3071; 3019; 3003; 2899. And one might add M'. Laeponius (2972); Albarenius (2845).

124 Jordanes, Getica 29.

125 CIL XII. 3426 (Nemausus: of late date). Apart from Patavium, Transpadana shows examples at Ateste, Altinum, Concordia (2607; 2243; 8676). None in CIL IX, X. XI.

126 CIL V. 2525 (= ILS 6693); 3609.

127 CIL XI. 3208 (Nepet): ‘Ducenius tucuntal tucuntines’ (cited by Schulze, LE 375).

128 Where, apart from Patavium, it occurs at Ateste (2538) and Vicetia (3162). Add from Pais, Supp. It. (1883), Vicetia (613); Aquileia (206).

129 Benefit can accrue on the side. Thus a patria for the Augustan rhetor Sepullius Bassus (PIR 1, S 360).

130 For example, the senator C. Mocconius Verus (CIL VI. 1463), the tribe ‘Fabia’ pointing to Brixia or Patavium (cf. n. 68 above). Again, L. Mestrius Florus (stiff, c. 75), the friend and patron of Plutarch, to whom he bequeathed his gentilicium. That native name, also Illyrian and Balkan, has 22 specimens in CIL V. See further the remarks on Florus, Mestrius in Mm. Helv. XXXVII (1980), 105Google Scholar.

131 CIL V. 2996. The curious may notice a magistrate at Verona, ‘] M. f. Pob. Aquila’ (Pais, Supp. It. 629).

132 CIL V. 4332. That volume has three Gabii: 1225 (Aquileia); 2631 (Ateste); 3672 (Verona).

Rational doubt will therefore attend upon the extraction of Q. Asconius Gabinius Modestus—and even upon the origin of consular Gabinii (suffecti in 35 and 43).

133 For the boundaries, CIL V, p. 268.

134 Matidia is attested as ‘Salonia Matidia’ by AE 1954, 62. For the family, Some Arval Brethren (1980), 61 f.

135 For Acelum (not in RE I), see Chilver, op. cit. 66. For the inscriptions, CIL V. 2086-108; Pais, Supp. It. 448-65.

136 Martial IV. 25. Apart from Atestina Sabina and her husband Clemens (X. 93), the sole sign that his journey to the North went across the Po.

137 Chilver, op. cit. 54 f.

138 G. Alföldy, Konsulat u. Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (1977), 147; 244; 304.

139 As duly registered by Groag, in RE V, 1755Google Scholar.

140 CIL X. 5821 (Ferentinum). ‘Cestianus’ is of interest because of ‘P. Cestius’ in the nomenclature of the senator C. Asconius C. f. Sardus (V. 2824; 7447).