Gaius Rutilius Gallicus
Quintus Iulius Cordinus Gaius Rutilius Gallicus (* around 24/25; † around 91/92) was a Roman senator of the 1st century.
He came from the Rutilii family from Augusta Taurinorum, today's Turin . Presumably the second from his family, he entered the senatorial office ( cursus honorum ) . After the military tribunate in Legio XIII Gemina and the bursary , he became a curular aedile around 52/53 . Still under Claudius , he was then a legate of the Legio XV Apollinaris , which was stationed in Carnuntum . During the reign of Nero he became praetor , governor of the province of Galatia (in this capacity he took part in the Gnaeus Domitius Corbulos campaign in Armenia) and legate of the proconsul of the province of Asia .
Probably in 71 or 72 Rutilius held his first consulate as a suffect consul . As a special envoy for Emperor Vespasian , he went to the province of Africa in 73/74 to enforce tax increases and redefine borders. After the consulate, but before the year 78, he was adopted by a Quintus Iulius Cordus and added the components Quintus Iulius Cordinus to his name . In 78 he was the governor of Germania inferior ; he could in the Batavian intricate brukterische prophetess Veleda capture. The last known stations of his career were the city prefecture from around 84 and a second suffect consulate in 85. Probably before the year 92 he died after a long illness.
The poet Statius dedicated a surviving poem to Rutilius Gallicus. Since the year 68 Rutilius sodalis Augustalis , since about 70 pontiff . He was married to Minica Paetina.
swell
- Statius: Silvae 1, 4
- AE 1920, 55 , from Ephesus , gives the cursus up to the designation for the first consulate
- CIL 6, 1984
- CIL 8, 14882
- CIL 8, 23084
- CIL 8, 25967
- AE 1979,648
- AE 1979,649
literature
- John Graham Wilmot Henderson : A Roman life. Rutilius Gallicus on paper & in stone. University of Exeter Press, Exeter 1998, ISBN 0-85989-565-3 (not evaluated; excerpts from Google Books ).
- Andreas Krieckhaus: Senatorial families and their patriae (1st / 2nd century AD). Kovač, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8300-1836-3 , pp. 80–86.
- Gerhard Wirth : Rutilius II 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, column 1473.
- Edmund Groag : Rutilius 19 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IA, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Sp. 1255-1263.
Remarks
- ↑ He only had these parts of his name since his adoption in the 1970s.
- ↑ CIL 16, 23 .
- ^ Statius , Silvae 1, 4, 90.
- ^ Statius, Silvae 1, praefatio .
- ↑ CIL 5, 6990 .
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SURNAME | Rutilius Gallicus, Gaius |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gallicus, Gaius Rutilius; Iulius Cordinus Gaius Rutilius Gallicus, Quintus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | roman senator |
DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: at 24 |
DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: around 91 |