Cingius Severus
Gaius (?) Cingius Severus (also: Cincius Severus ) († 197 ) was an imperial Roman senator . He was curator aedium sacrarum in 183 and previously a suffect consul for an indefinite period of time . As Tertullian reports in his letter to Scapula, Severus, as proconsul of the province of Africa , showed himself gracious to the Christians. After the murder of the emperor Commodus , he applied for his damnatio memoriae on December 31, 192 and was killed at the instigation of the emperor Septimius Severus .
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIL 6, 36874 : locu [s adsignatus ...] / ab Antoni [o ...] / c (uratore) o (perum) [p (ublicorum) ...] / et Cingium (!) [C ( uratore) a (edium) s (acrarum) ...] / dedic (averunt?) [...] / Imp (eratore) [Commodo ... Aug (usto) IIII] / et Aufid [io Victorino II co ( n) s (ulibus)] .
- ↑ Epistula ad Scapulam : “How many presidents, and even more severe and cruel ones, have looked through the fingers in cases of this kind! So z. B. Cincius Severus, who gave Thysdrus himself the means of information how the Christians should answer in order to be released. "
literature
- Bengt E. Thomasson : The governors of the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletianus, Lund 1960.
- Rudolf Hanslik : Cingius. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 1191.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cingius Severus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cincius Severus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician of the imperial era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 197 |