Lucius Virius Lupus Iulianus

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Lucius Virius Lupus Iulianus was a Roman politician and senator of the 3rd century AD.

The patrician Lupus was almost certainly a son of the homo novus Virius Lupus, who was loyal to the emperor Septimius Severus in the struggle for rule, and a younger brother of Lucius Virius Agricola , who was consul in 230 . The career of Lupus is known up to the praetur .

Lupus was sevir equitum Romanorum (leader of a squadron of Roman knights), triumvir capitalis (head of prisons) and legate of the province of Lycia et Pamphylia . After his allectus inter quaestorios (admission to the quaestor's rank ), Lupus became praetor and finally an ordinary consul.

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literature

  • Karlheinz Dietz: Senatus contra principem. Investigations into the senatorial opposition to Emperor Maximinus Thrax . Beck, Munich 1980, pp. 254f., ISBN 3-406-04799-8 ( Vestigia , Vol. 29).