Aulus Caecina Severus

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Aulus Caecina Severus was a Roman senator and military officer of the early Imperial period.

Caecina, who lived around the mid-1940s BC. Was born in BC, may have come from Volaterrae like other members of the Caecinae family. In the year 1 BC He was a suffect consul . For the years 6 and 7 AD he is attested as governor of the province of Moesia and participated in the fight against the uprising of the Pannonians. 6 AD he defeated the Breuker, but had to return to Moesia, which was threatened by invasions by the Dacians and Sarmatians. In the following year he narrowly escaped defeat with five legions and had to accept criticism of his military qualities. At a time that cannot be precisely dated - probably under Augustus (8-13 AD?) - he held the office of proconsul of Africa .

In 14 AD, at the death of Augustus, Caecina was a legate of the Army of Lower Germany (Germania inferior) , with which he went against the Martians after Germanicus had with difficulty suppressed a mutiny of the legions . In the following year 15 AD he was involved in the Germanicus campaigns against the tribes led by Arminius and only narrowly escaped destruction with his legions in the battle of the "Long Bridges" ( pontes longi ) on the march back . For the rescue of the troops he received the triumphal insignia . In the following year, he and other legates built a fleet.

After the trial of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso , Caecina proposed in the Senate in 20 AD that an altar of revenge be drawn up, but the Princeps Tiberius refused. The following year Caecina spoke out in a Senate debate that governors should not travel to the provinces with their wives, but did not get her way. Anthony A. Barrett suspects that bad experiences with the older Agrippina , who had accompanied her husband Germanicus, prompted Caecina to propose him.

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Tacitus , Annals 1.64, in AD 15 he could look back on forty years of military service.
  2. ↑ AE 1937, 62
  3. ^ Cassius Dio , Römische Geschichte 55,29,3-55,30,5.
  4. ↑ Velleius Paterculus , Historia Romana 2,112,4–6; Cassius Dio, Roman History 55,32,3–4.
  5. ↑ AE 1987, 992 ; Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian. Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 26 f.
  6. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 1.31.
  7. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 1.72.
  8. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 2,6.
  9. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 3,18,2.
  10. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 3, 33-34.
  11. ^ Anthony A. Barrett: Aulus Caecina Severus and the military woman. In: Historia , Volume 54, 2005, pp. 301-314.
personal data
SURNAME Caecina Severus, Aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Severus, Aulus Caecina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and military
DATE OF BIRTH around 45 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 21