Marcus Vettulenus Civica Barbarus

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Marcus Vettulenus (also Vetulenus ) Civica Barbarus was a Roman politician and senator . In the military diplomas his name is given as Marcus Civica Barbarus .

Barbarus came from Italy, probably from Sabinium, a landscape between Rome and Terni . His father was Sextus Vettulenus Civica Cerialis , who was consul in 106 . His mother, Plautia, came from Faventia and was married to Lucius Ceionius Commodus , consul 106, and Gaius Avidius Nigrinus , suffect consul 110, before her marriage to Civica Cerialis . From her marriage to Commodus she had a son, who later became Lucius Aelius Caesar , who was thus a half-brother of Barbarus.

Barbarus was triumvir monetalis , quaestor and praetor . Military diplomas dated February 8, 157, prove that he was an ordinary consul with Marcus Metilius Regulus in 157 . He accompanied Annia Lucilla to her wedding with Lucius Verus in the Orient, where he stayed for a long time as comes , but without actively participating in the Parthian War. Barbarus was friends with Herodes Atticus .

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  1. Military diplomas of the year 157 ( AE 2007, 1236 , RMD 2, 102 , RMD 2, 103 ).
  2. Werner Eck : The Fasti consulares of the reign of Antoninus Pius. An inventory since Géza Alföldy's consulate and senatorial status In: Studia Epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7749-3866-3 , pp. 69–90, here p. 78 ( online ).