Lucius Burbuleius Optatus Ligarianus

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Lucius Burbuleius Optatus Ligarianus (full name form Lucius Burbuleius Luci filius Quirina Optatus Ligarianus ) was a Roman politician living in the 2nd century AD . Through an inscription that was found in Minturnae , individual stations of his career are known, which he completed in the first half of the 2nd century. His career is in the inscription as cursus inversus , d. H. in descending order.

Ligarianus was inscribed in the Quirina tribe . The inscription shows that he was among other things Tribunus laticlavius ​​of the Legio IX Hispana , quaestor in the province of Pontus et Bithynia , Legatus legionis of the Legio XVI Flavia company and governor in the provinces of Sicilia , Cappadocia and Syria .

A military diploma dated May 19, 135, proves that Ligarianus 135 was a suffect consul with Marcus Aemilius Papus . The governorships of Cappadocia and Syria followed the consulate, while he held the other offices before.

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Remarks

  1. The two consuls were in office either for three months (from April to June) or for four months (from May to August).

Individual evidence

  1. CIL 10, 6006
  2. ^ Military diploma of 135 ( RMD 4, 251 ).
  3. Margaret M. Roxan : Two Complete Diplomas of Pannonia Inferior: 19 May 135 and 7 Aug. 143. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE), Volume 127 (1999), pp. 249-273, here p. 251 ( PDF ).
  4. Werner Eck , Paul Holder , Andreas Pangerl: A Diploma for the Army of Britain in 132 and Hadrian's Return to Rome from the East In: ZPE, Volume 174 (2010), pp. 189-200, here p. 194 ( online ) .