Gaius Iulius Severus

Gaius Iulius Severus (* around 90; † after 162) was a Roman politician and senator .

Life

Severus came from a Galatian royal family from Ancyra , whose descendants had received Roman citizenship and the gentile name Iulius under Augustus . His father of the same name was a suffect consul around 138 . Before his praetur, Severus was the tribune of the Legio IV Scythica and, as the emperor's candidate, quaestor and tribune of the people . At 145 he was praetor urbanus .

From 147 to 150 Severus was a legate of the Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix and probably between 151 and 154 street curator of the Via Appia . A military diploma dated March 10, 155, shows that he was full consul with Marcus Iunius Rufinus Sabinianus in 155 . The first consular office that Severus held was the Legature in Syria Palestine between 157 and 159/160. He is provincial governor for 158 by military diplomas.

Severus was a member of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis priestly quorum .

See also

• List of Roman consuls
• List of governors of Syria Palestine

literature

• PIR² I 574
• Edmund Groag : Iulius 484 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Col. 811-820.

Remarks

1. ↑ According to Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl (2006, 2007) Severus probably took over the office in autumn 157 from his predecessor, Decimus Seius Seneca ; in the year 159, at the latest in 160 Maximus Lucilianus was governor.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Military diplomas from the years 155 ( AE 2004, 1907 ) and 158 ( ZPE-157-190 , ZPE-159-283 ).
2. ↑ Werner Eck : The Fasti consulares of the reign of Antoninus Pius. An inventory since Géza Alföldy's consulate and senator status In: Studia Epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7749-3866-3 , pp. 69–90, here p. 77 ( online ).
3. ↑ Werner Eck, Andreas Pangerl: A constitution for the troops of Syria Palestine from the year 158 In: Journal for Papyrology and Epigraphik , Volume 157 (2006), pp. 185–191, here pp. 187–189 ( online ).
4. ↑ Werner Eck, Andreas Pangerl: A constitution for the auxiliary troops of Syria Palestine of February 6, 158 AD In: ZPE, Volume 159 (2007), pp. 283-290, here p. 286 ( online ).