Lucius Domitius Rogatus

Lucius Domitius Rogatus (full name form Lucius Domitius Luci filius Quirina Rogatus ) was a member of the Roman knighthood ( Eques ) living in the 2nd century AD . The stations of his career, which he completed in the first half of the 2nd century, are known through his epitaph. His career is shown in the inscription as cursus inversus , i.e. in descending order and thus chronologically backwards.

Rogatus was initially accensus velatus , i.e. personal assistant to a Roman magistrate . This post was usually held by a freedman of the official. This was followed by his military career, which consisted of the usual tres militiae for a member of the equestrian order . First he took over the management of a Cohors I Dalmatarum as prefect . He then became prefect of the Cohors I Flavia equitata , which was stationed in Germania inferior . Then he was Tribunus militum with the Legio VI Victrix , whose headquarters was in Eboracum in the province of Britannia; he should have assumed this position around the year 122. The Tres militiae was followed by a fourth military post ( Militia quarta ) as prefect of the Ala I Hispanorum Aravacorum , which was stationed in Pannonia superior .

After his military career, Rogatus took on other positions in civil administration. First he was head of the office of Lucius Aelius Caesar from 136 ( from epistulis Lucii Aelii Caesaris ), who was the designated successor to the incumbent Emperor Hadrian from this year . It is likely that Lucius Aelius became aware of Rogatus during his previous governorship in Pannonia. The activity as ab epistulis was associated with an annual income of 60,000 sesterces . This was followed by the post of procurator monetae Augusti (agent of the emperor for the mint of the city of Rome) with an annual income of 100,000 sesterces. Subsequently, Lucius Domitius Rogatus was knightly financial officer ( Procurator Augusti ) for the province of Dalmatia ; this post was associated with an annual income of 200,000 sesterces. He was also a minor pontiff in Rome.

Rogatus was inscribed in the Quirina tribe . His tombstone was erected by his wife Domitia Venusta.

literature

• Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire Romain. Volume 1, Paul Geuthner, Paris 1960.
• Hubert Devijver : Prosopographia Militiarum Equestrium quae fuerunt from Augusto ad Gallienum. Volume 1, Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven 1977, p. 334 f.
• Arthur Stein : Domitius 75 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 1433.

Remarks

1. ↑ There were two units with this designation (see Cohors I Dalmatarum ). The inscription does not reveal which unit Rogatus commanded. Hans-Georg Pflaum and John Spaul assign him to the Cohors I Delmatarum (Britannia) , which was stationed in the province of Britannia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inscription ( CIL 6, 1607 )
2. ^ Theodor Mommsen : Roman State Law. Volume 1, 3rd edition, S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1887, p. 358 (p. 342 f. Of the second edition from 1876).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hubert Devijver , Prosopographia, pp. 334-335, No. D31.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les Carrières , pp. 331–333, no. 140.
5. ↑ John Spaul : Cohors² The evidence for and a short history of the auxiliary infantry units of the Imperial Roman Army , British Archaeological Reports 2000, BAR International Series (Book 841), ISBN 978-1841710464 , page 116, 302nd
6. ↑ John EH Spaul : Ala The Auxiliary Cavalry units of the pre-Diocletianic Imperial Roman Army. Nectoreca Press, Andover 1994, ISBN 0-9525062-0-3 , p. 31.