Marcus Arruntius Frugi

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Marcus Arruntius Frugi (full name form Marcus Arruntius Marci filius Sergia Frugi ) was a member of the Roman knighthood ( Eques ) living in the 2nd century AD . Individual stations in his career are known through an inscription dated 127/130.

Frugi's military career consisted of the usual tres militiae for a member of the equestrian order . First, as prefect , he took over the management of the Cohors III Ulpia Petraeorum , which was stationed in the province of Cappadocia . He then became a tribunus militum in the Legio XIII Gemina , which was stationed in Dacia . The third stage was the command as prefect of an Ala Parthorum sagittariorum .

After his military career, Frugi took on civil functions in administration. Perhaps his first task was to conduct a census in the province of Britannia ( procuratori Augusti provinciae Britanniae ad census ). He then worked as Augusti procurator in the province of Cilicia ; this post was linked to an annual income of 100,000 sesterces . This was followed by the post of Procurator Augusti for the province of Cappadocia and adjacent areas ( provinciae Cappadociae et Armeniae minoris et Ponti mediterranei ); this post was associated with an annual income of 200,000 sesterces.

Frugi was inscribed in the Sergia tribe . It probably came from Iconium , where the inscription was found.

literature

  • Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire Romain , Paris 1960, volume 1.

Remarks

  1. ↑ There were several units with this designation (see Ala Parthorum ). The inscription does not reveal which unit Frugi commanded. Hans-Georg Pflaum and David L. Kennedy assign it to the Ala Parthorum (Cappadocia) , which was stationed in the province of Cappadocia .
  2. ↑ It is uncertain whether the line Britan (niae) ad census provin (ciae) was even included in the inscription .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inscription ( AE 1908, 200 ).
  2. ↑ 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 , S. 450th
  3. ↑ a b c Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les Carrières , pp. 373-375, no. 157.
  4. ↑ David L. Kennedy: Parthian Regiments in the Roman army in J. Fitz (ed.) Limes. Files of the XI International Limes Congress (Akadémiai Kiadó. Hungarian Academy of the Sciences), Budapest 1977, pp. 521-531, here pp. 524-525 ( online ).
  5. ↑ 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. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Arruntius Frugi, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman officer (imperial era)
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century