Marcus Maenius Agrippa Lucius Tusidius Campester

Marcus Maenius Agrippa Lucius Tusidius Campester (full name form Marcus Maenius Gai filius Cornelia Agrippa Lucius Tusidius Campester ) 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 138/161. In the dedicatory inscriptions his name is given as Marcus Maenius Agrippa .

Agrippa'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 II Flavia Brittonum equitata , which was stationed in the province of Moesia inferior . He was then selected by Hadrian (117-138) to participate as a tribune of the Cohors I Hispanorum equitata in the suppression of an uprising in the province of Britannia ( misso in expeditionem Brittannicam ). He is also evidenced as a tribune by four dedicatory inscriptions on altars, which were found at the Alauna fort and which are dated to 123/137. The third stage was the command as prefect of the Ala I Gallorum et Pannoniorum catafractata , which was stationed in Moesia inferior .

After finishing his military career, Agrippa took on positions in administration. He was initially Procurator Augusti and prefect of the Roman fleet stationed in Britain ( Classis Britannica ); this post was linked to an annual income of 100,000 sesterces . Afterwards he was responsible for the financial administration as procurator in the same province; this post was associated with an annual income of 200,000 sesterces.

Agrippa was registered in the Cornelia tribe . The inscription was found in Camerinum , today's Camerino , where he was the patron . The inscription shows that he was in the favor of both Hadrian ( hospiti divi Hadriani and electo a divo Hadriano ) and Antoninus Pius (138-161); he managed to get Camerinum privileged from the latter. His son rose to the rank of senator, because the inscription states that Agrippa was the father of a senator ( patri senatoris ). Lucius Tusidius Campester was probably his (possibly adopted) son.

See also

• List of prefects of the Roman fleets

Web links

• 2904 - Marcus Maenius Agrippa. Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB), accessed February 18, 2020 . 

literature

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

Remarks

1. ↑ The dating of this expeditio Brittannica is controversial.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inscription ( CIL 11, 5632 ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} inscriptions ( RIB 823 , RIB 824 , RIB 825 , RIB 826 ).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les Carrières , No. 120, pp. 292–295.
4. ↑ Paul Holder : Roman Military Diplomas V (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 88), Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London 2006, p. 807, no. 395, note 3.
5. ↑ Werner Eck , Peter Weiß : Tusidius Campester, cos. suff. under Antoninus Pius, and the Fasti Ostienses of the years 141/142 AD. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 134 (2001), pp. 251–260, here pp. 253, 255 ( online ).