Lucius Neratius Marcellus

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Lucius Neratius Marcellus was a Roman senator and politician in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Lucius Neratius Marcellus came from a Roman senatorial family residing in Saepinum in Samnium , who had been raised to the patrician status under Emperor Vespasian . He was probably the son of the lawyer Lucius Neratius Priscus , who was a suffect consul in 87; his brother could have been Lucius Neratius Proculus (suffect consul probably 144 or 145).

Under Vespasian he not only became a patrician, but also Salius Palatinus , a member of a priestly brotherhood in honor of Mars , to which only patricians were allowed to belong. He started the course honorum as quaestor , then he held the praetur . In 95 he became consul for the first time, as a suffect consul for the period from January 13th to May. He was a friend of the future Emperor Trajan , who appointed him governor of the province of Britannia for the period 101/103 . He was also initially in favor with Trajan's successor, Hadrian , because the emperor appointed him consul for the second time, for the year 129, and this time even as consul. Since Hadrian generally mistrusted the close friends and followers of his predecessor and had many of them eliminated, it is possible that he also drove Neratius Marcellus to suicide, at least according to vita Hadriani in the Historia Augusta .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Werner Eck : Neratius 1. In: Der Neue Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , Sp. 844.
  2. ↑ Atilio Degrassi : Inscrpti It., XIII, 1, p. 194 ff.
  3. ↑ CIL 16, 48
  4. ↑ CIL 6,527
  5. ↑ Historia Augusta , Vita Hadriani 15.4.
personal data
SURNAME Neratius Marcellus, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman senator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century