Marcus Nonius Macrinus

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The inscription ( CIL 5, 4343 )

Marcus Nonius Macrinus was a Roman senator of the 2nd century AD and suffect consul in 154.

Various inscriptions indicate that Nonius Macrinus came from Brescia in northern Italy . His senatorial career is known from an inscription that was on the base of a statue that was erected for him on the agora in Ephesus , Asia Minor . Accordingly, he was Decemvir stlitibus iudicandis , military tribune of a legion, quaestor , legate in the province of Asia , tribune of the people , praetor , legate of Legio XIV , suffect consul in 154 AD and curator Tiberis et alveorum . Through military diplomasit is documented that he was governor of the province of Pannonia Inferior on September 5, 152 ; his tenure in the province is likely to have lasted from 151 to 153. Further diplomas, which can be dated June 21, 159 and February 8, 161, prove him as governor of the province of Pannonia superior . Subsequently, Nonius Macrinus was a legate and military companion ( comes ) of the emperor Marcus Aurelius during the Marcomannic Wars (166-180) and priest of the deified Lucius Verus . In the year of office 170/171 he was proconsul of the province of Asia, where the statue in Ephesus was erected for him due to unspecified services. In addition to the cult college for the deceased Emperor Verus, into which he was accepted as an amicus of the emperor, he also belonged to the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis .

In 2008, during excavations in northern Rome on the Via Flaminia, the grave of Nonius Macrinus was found; the fragmentary grave inscription names some of the offices already known from the Ephesian inscription. He was married to an Arria . His son Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus Manlius Carbo was presumably a suffect consul under Commodus , his grandson Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus full consul in 201.

See also

literature

  • PIR²N 140
  • Bernadette Puech, Laurent Pernot: Orateurs et sophistes grecs dans les inscriptions d'époque impériale . Vrin 2002, ISBN 2-7116-1573-1 , pp. 197-199.

Remarks

  1. CIL 5, 4325 ; CIL 5, 4300 ; CIL 5, 4336 ; CIL 5, 4343 ; CIL 5, 4344 ; CIL 5, 4361 ; CIL 5, 4864 .
  2. Inscriptions from Ephesus 3029 = Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 8830 ( online ).
  3. The inscription names the XVII. Legion, which, however, was no longer set up after its destruction in the Varus Battle .
  4. a b Military diplomas from the years 152 ( ZPE-171-221 , ZPE-208-229 ), 158/160 ( ZPE-198-240 ), 159 ( AE 2004, 1905 , RMD 5, 422 , ZPE-181-194 ) and 161 ( RMD 5, 430 , RMD 5, 431 ).
  5. Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl: A diploma for the auxiliary troops of Pannonia inferior from September 5, 152 AD. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE), Volume 171 (2009), pp. 221–230, here p. 226 ( online ).
  6. Barbara Pferdehirt : Roman military diplomas and certificates of discharge in the collection of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, part 1. Verlag des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3884670867 , p. 122.
  7. 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, pp. 845-846, no. 422, note. 5 and pp. 855–856, no. 430, note 3.
  8. Werner Eck, Andreas Pangerl: A diploma with the special formula PRAETEREA PRAESTITIT In: ZPE, Volume 198 (2016), pp. 239–244, here pp. 241–242 ( online ).
  9. Jenő Fitz : Legati legionum Pannoniae superioris. In: Acta Antiqua Academiae scientiarum Hungaricae 9. 1-2, Budapest 1961, pp. 159-207; here: p. 194.
  10. Apart from the inscription, the governorship is also known from a passage in Aelius Aristides , Eleusinios 22, 31 Keil.
  11. What do we know about Nonius Macrinus? ; Crypt of the "Gladiator" model found , SPIEGEL Online, Oct. 16, 2008 .
  12. ^ AE 2007, 257 . Cf. Marcus Nonius Macrinus: the inscription (with photo and provisional reading of the inscription).
  13. CIL 5, 4864 .
  14. Cf. Géza Alföldy: Cities, Elites and Society in the Gallia Cisalpina: Epigraphic-historical studies . Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07633-6 , p. 311.
  15. CIL 5, 4318 ; CIL 5, 4339 ; CIL 5, 4346 .