Lucius Velleius Paterculus

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Lucius Velleius Paterculus (* probably before 18, † after 60) was a Roman politician of the Neronian era and consul of the year 61.

Lucius Velleius Paterculus was probably a younger brother of Gaius Velleius Paterculus (suffect consul 60) and a son or grandson of the historian Velleius Paterculus .

In July and August of the year 61, he and Gnaeus Pedanius Salinator held the post of consul who moved up, as an inscription dated July 2nd and a tessera nummularia dated 1st (?) Found in Vindobona (Vienna), province of Pannonia superior . Witness August. The Viennese inscription contains u. a. the following lines:

[…]
A (nte) d (iem) VI Non (as) Iul (ias) Cn (aeo)
Pedanio Salinatore L (ucio) Velleio Paterculo
co (n) s (ulibus) coh (ortis) II Hispan (orum ) cui prae (e) st C (aius) Caesius
[...]

literature

  • Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli: Tabulae Ceratae Herculanenses . In: La Parola del Passato 1, 1946, pp. 373-385, especially p. 382.
  • Paul A. Gallivan: Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero. In: Classical Quarterly NS 24, 1974, pp. 290-311, especially p. 302.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The term of office is in any case in Nero's VII tribunicia potestas , i.e. between December 60 and December 61, cf. Gallivan 302.
  2. ↑ CIL 16, 4 = Smallwood No. 296. Almost identical to the inscription AE 1998, 1056 from Cornacum (today Vukovar), Pannonia inferior , Slobodan Dušanić: University of Belgrade on the military diploma from Vukova ( Memento from July 22, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ CIL 1.1 776b.
personal data
SURNAME Velleius Paterculus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paterculus, Lucius Velleius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul 61
DATE OF BIRTH before 18
DATE OF DEATH after 60