Gaius Velleius Paterculus (suffect consul 60)

Gaius Velleius Paterculus was a Roman politician of the Nero period and suffect consul in the year 60.

Gaius Velleius Paterculus, presumably a son or grandson of the historian of the same name , became a legacy of the III sometime after 39, possibly after 45 through an inscription found in El Arrusch / Numidia . Legion testifies. Otherwise, we only know that in the year 60 he served as the next consul with Marcus Manilius Vopiscus from July to September, as can be seen from an inscription and two wax tablets found in Herculaneum :

[15. July:]

M (arco) Manilio Vopisco C (aio) Velle [[a]] o Paterculo co (n) s (ulibus) /

Idibus Iuli (i) s dedicavit /: familiae Silvani crustulum mulsum ab se dedit /

decrevit familia Silvani M (arco) Valerio Dextro immunitatem [...]

[25. July]

[C. Ve] l [le] io Paterculo M. Manilio Vopisco

uiii K (alendas) Aug (ustas)

L. Venidius Ennychus testatus est

sibi filiam natam esse ex Liuia

Acte uxore sua

[3. September:]

C. velleio Paterculo M. Manilio Vopisco cos.

iii Non (as) Sept (embres)

Q. Junius Theophilus scripsi me repromisisse A. Tetteio Severo [...].

Seneca mentions that a comet appeared during his consulate. This is likely to be the same comet from which Tacitus reports for the year 60: "Meanwhile, during the first Neronia , a comet also shone, of which the people believe that it heralds a change of government."

literature

Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli: "Tabulae Ceratae Herculanenses." In: La Parola del Passato 1, 1946, pp. 373-385, in particular 381f.
Paul A. Gallivan: "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero." In: Classical Quarterly NS 24, 1974, pp. 290-311, especially 302.

Remarks

↑ CIL 8, 10311 : C (aio) Veleio / Paterculo / leg (ato) Aug (usti) / leg (ionis) III Aug (ustae) / XXIX .
^ AE 1929, 161
↑ Pugliese Carratelli 382
↑ Pugliese Carratelli 381
^ Fecit hic cometes, qui Paterculo et Vopisco consulibus apparuit, quae from Aristotele Theophrastoque sunt praedicta. (Seneca naturales quaestiones 7, 28, 3)
↑ Tacitus, annales 14, 22, 1; see. Robert Samuel Rogers, "The Neronian Comets." In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 84 (1953) 237-249; Gallivan p. 302.

personal data
SURNAME	Velleius Paterculus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Paterculus, Gaius Velleius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman suffect consul 60
DATE OF BIRTH	before 13
DATE OF DEATH	after 60

[1] CIL 8, 10311 : C (aio) Veleio / Paterculo / leg (ato) Aug (usti) / leg (ionis) III Aug (ustae) / XXIX .

[2] AE 1929, 161

[3] Pugliese Carratelli 382

[4] Pugliese Carratelli 381

[5] Fecit hic cometes, qui Paterculo et Vopisco consulibus apparuit, quae from Aristotele Theophrastoque sunt praedicta. (Seneca naturales quaestiones 7, 28, 3)

[6] Tacitus, annales 14, 22, 1; see. Robert Samuel Rogers, "The Neronian Comets." In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 84 (1953) 237-249; Gallivan p. 302.