Lucius Domitius Apollinaris

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Lucius Domitius Apollinaris was a Roman politician living in the 1st century AD .

Apollinaris was governor ( Legatus Augusti pro praetore ) in the province of Lycia et Pamphylia from 93/94 to 95/96 . Two military diplomas dated August 14, 97, prove that he was a suffect consul under Emperor Nerva 97 together with Sextus Hermentidius Campanus ; the two held this office from July to August.

He was an acquaintance of the younger Pliny and a patron of the poet Martial , who dedicated several epigrams to him.

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Individual evidence

  1. Werner Eck : Annual and provincial fasts of the senatorial governors from 69/70 to 138/139 In: Chiron , Volume 13 (1983), pp. 147-238, here p. 222 ( online ).
  2. Military diplomas of the year 97 ( ZPE-187-275 , ZPE-187-277 ).
  3. ^ Werner Eck, Andreas Pangerl: New diplomas with the names of consuls and governors. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 187 (2013), pp. 273–294, here pp. 276–277 ( online ).