Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus (Consul 61)
Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus († after 71) was a Roman politician.
Paetus was a full consul together with Publius Petronius Turpilianus in the year 61 and is therefore likely to have been born before 18 AD. In the same year Nero sent him as an imperial legate ( legatus Augusti pro praetore ) to protect Armenia to Cappadocia . During the Roman-Parthian War from 58 to 63 he suffered a defeat in the Battle of Rhandeia and had to surrender to the Parthians.
Since the year 70 he was governor of the province of Syria . In 71/72 he defeated Antiochus IV of Commagene there . Kommagene was then incorporated into the province of Syria . Nothing is known about his death.
Presumably he was the father of the eponymous Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus, who held the office of suffect consul in 79 and was proconsul of the province of Asia around 94 .
Remarks
- ↑ Tacitus , Annals 14,29,1.
- ↑ Cassius Dio , Roman History 62,22,4.
- ↑ Flavius Josephus , De bello Judaico 7, 219ff.
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| SURNAME | Junius Caesennius Paetus, Lucius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caesennius Paetus, Lucius Junius; Paetus, Lucius Junius Caesennius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician, consul A.D. 61 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 71 |