Lucceius Albinus
Lucceius Albinus († 69 ) was a Roman knight and from 62 to 64 AD official in Judea .
Life
Since Albinus came from Egypt, he could already have been officially active there. It is disputed whether he was still subordinate to the governor of Syria as praefectus , or whether he was the presidential procurator . According to the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus , Albinus engaged in ruthless mismanagement in Judea. Albinus released imprisoned partisans - even the Sicarians - for ransom , emptied the public coffers and charged the people with high taxes.
As a last official act, he emptied the overcrowded prisons again in order to get more money, whereby the felons were executed while he released the remaining inmates against payment of a sum of money. Flavius Josephus summarized the effects of Albinus' last official act in the following sentence:
- So the prisons of malefactors emptied, but the country was filled with bandits .
The successor of Albinus as procurator in Judea was Gessius Florus . Albinus became procurator of Mauretania Caesariensis from around 66 , under the Roman emperor Galba also of Mauretania Tingitana . There he is said to have made himself “King” under the title Juba in 69 after Otho's death . However, he was killed by the troops of Cluvius Rufus , the quaestor of Baetica .
See also
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- Flavius Josephus : De bello Iudaico , Greek / German, ed. and with an introduction and annotations by Otto Michel and Otto Bauernfeind , 3 vol., 1959–1969.
- Tacitus : Historiae , 2, 58–59 ( online ; English translation )
literature
- Klaus Bringmann : History of the Jews in Antiquity. From the Babylonian exile to the Arab conquest . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-94138-X , pp. 245-247.
- Werner Eck : Lucceius [II 1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 459.
- Ute Schall : The Jews in the Roman Empire . Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7917-1786-3 , pp. 200, 205.
Remarks
- ↑ Flavius Josephus, History of the Judean War 2,14,1.
- ↑ Flavius Josephus, Jüdische Antiquities 20,215.
- ^ Tacitus , Historiae 2.58.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lucceius Albinus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Albinus, Lucceius (permutation form) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | roman knight |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 69 |