Lucius Baebius Avitus
Lucius Baebius Avitus (full name form Lucius Baebius Luci filius Galeria Avitus ) was a member of the Roman knighthood ( Eques ) who lived in the 1st century AD and rose to the rank of senator. Individual stations of his career are known through an inscription that was found in Rome and which is dated 69/79.
Avitus was initially Praefectus fabrum . This was followed by his only military command when he became tribunus militum in the Legio X Gemina , which was then stationed in Spain. He then became Procurator Augusti ( procurator Imperatoris Caesaris Vespasiani Augusti ) in the province of Lusitania ; this post was associated with an annual income of 200,000 sesterces.
The reason for the quick promotion to procurator is probably due to the turmoil of the four-emperor year . Tacitus reports in the Historiae that the Legio X Gemina of Cluvius Rufus , the governor of the province of Tarraconensis , was moved to the south in order to secure the Strait of Gibraltar , as the governor of the two Mauritanian provinces, Lucceius Albinus , threatened to go to Spain to translate. After Vitellius' defeat , the X Gemina sided with Vespasian in December 69 . In these events Avitus may have played an important role in favor of Vespasians, so that in addition to the post of procurator he received another recognition: he was accepted into the senatorial rank with the rank of praetor ( adlecto inter praetorios ).
Avitus was registered in the Tribus Galeria . He probably came from Saguntum in the Tarraconensis.
literature
- Ségolène Demougin: Prosopographie des Chevaliers Romains Julio-Claudiens (43 av. J.–C. - 70 ap. J.–C.) , Collection de l'École Francaise de Rome 153, 1992, ISSN 0223-5099 , ISBN 2- 7283-0248-7 ( online ).
- Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire Romain , Paris 1960, volume 1.
- Paul von Rohden : Baebius 22 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2730.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inscription ( CIL 6, 1359 ).
- ^ A b Hans-Georg Pflaum , Les Carrières, pp. 100-102, no. 42.
- ↑ a b c Ségolène Demougin, Prosopographie, pp. 592–593, no. 698.
- ^ Tacitus , Historiae , II, 58 ( online ; English translation ).
- ^ Tacitus, Historiae, III, 44 ( online ; English translation ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Avitus, Lucius Baebius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman officer (imperial era) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century or 2nd century |