Lucius Aemilius Iuncus (suffect consul 127)

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Lucius Aemilius Iuncus was a Roman senator of the early 2nd century.

Lucius Aemilius Iuncus came from Tripoli in Phenicia , which at that time belonged to the Roman province of Syria . What his native name was is not known, his Roman name must either have been adopted, as provincials who wanted to make a career in Rome usually did, or he was adopted by a Roman. In any case, he is a good example of the fact that from the 2nd century onwards, not only Italians and Romanized provincials from Hispania and Gaul , but also Orientals came to the Senate.

Aemilius Iuncus' early career is not recorded. He is registered as a suffect consul for the months from October to December 127 for the year 127 . He also appears, around 132–135, as legatus Augusti pro praetore and corrector for the free cities of Achaia , an office whose detailed competencies are not known, but which probably included financial supervisory functions similar to that of a curator civitatis (in Delphi he will mentioned in a resolution on the distribution of public lands). The year of his death is unknown. The suffect consul of the same name in 179 was probably his descendant.

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  1. ↑ Rudolf Hanslik : Aemilius II 4). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 94.
  2. ↑ CIL 16, 72 ; Juvenal 15, 27; among others
  3. ↑ Inscriptiones Graecae II², 4210 ; Inscriptiones Graecae 5, 1, 485 : Αἰμίλιος Ἰοῦγκος ὁ δικαιοδότης ; Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 48, 592: διορθωτὴς τῶν ἐλευθέρων δ [ήμων] .
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SURNAME Aemilius Iuncus, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION roman senator
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH after 135