Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus

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Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus was a Roman politician and senator in the late 1st century AD

Approx. 83/84 Lappius Maximus was proconsul of the province of Bithynia et Pontus . From September to December of the year 86 he held his first suffect consulate . After his consulate, Lappius Maximus became a legate of the province of Germania inferior (87 / 88-89 / 90). As such, he threw down the revolt of the legate of the province of Germania superior , Lucius Antonius Saturninus , but burned the documents of the co-conspirators. Subsequently, he was appointed legate of the Syria province , which had the strongest military force in the east (approx. 90 / 91-93). From May to August of 95 Lappius Maximus held his second suffect consulate. In 102 he was pontiff .

According to Cassius Dio, Lappius Maximus had the entire correspondence of Saturninus destroyed in order to protect the co-conspirators of the rebel governor from imperial persecution. One would actually have to expect that Domitian therefore did not regard him as necessarily reliable. But the emperor does not seem to have doubted his loyalty, as can be seen from the governorship of Syria and the second consulate that he gave him. Maximus' claim to have burned the papers of the killed usurper therefore probably only fell after Domitian's murder. Maximus describes his wife's grave inscription as confector belli Germanici , i.e. the one who brought the German War to an end. This propaganda formula means the suppression of Saturninus.

See also

literature

  • Werner Eck : Senators from Vespasian to Hadrian. Prosopographical investigations including the annual and provincial fasts of the governors. Beck, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-406-03096-3 , pp. 62, 133, 138ff., 141ff. (Vestigia, vol. 13).

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the past, the sources used a form of the name “L. Appius Maximus ”. For the correct reading cf. J. Assa, in: Acts of the IV. International Congress for Greek and Latin Epigraphy , Vienna 1964, pp. 31–39.
  2. ↑ Cassius Dio, Roman History , 67.11.1f.
  3. ^ Karl Strobel : Emperor Traian. An epoch in world history. Regensburg 2010, p. 106.
  4. ^ Karl Strobel: Emperor Traian. An epoch in world history. Regensburg 2010, p. 107f.
personal data
SURNAME Bucius Lappius Maximus, Aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maximus, Aulus Bucius Lappius; Lappius Maximus, Aulus Bucius; Appius Maximus, Lucius; Maximus, Lucius Appius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul (86 and 95) and military
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH after 102