Titus Messius Extricatus
Titus Messius Extricatus was a late classical jurist , politician, senator and Praetorian prefect of the Roman Empire .
The Extricatus, who rose from knight to senatorial rank, can be identified with the praefectus annonae of the same name in 210. He had previously been a legal advisor to Septimius Severus at the Imperial Court . In the function of a consiliarius Augusti , together with Papinian as the head of the imperial dragonfly chancellery ( a libellis ) at the time , he was able to persuade the emperor to use the Fiscus exhaustively.
After the successor Emperor Caracalla , in whose special favor Extricatus had probably been, had presumably accepted him into the rank of Praetorians and into the Senate, he was entrusted with the command of a legion that could not be specified . Apparently this was the only praetoric office before he was honored as comes and amicus of the emperor with the ordinary consulate in 217. Before this year, Extricatus were awarded the ornamenta consularia or the adlectio inter consulares .
Quite unusual, but hardly surprising under Emperor Elagabal , Extricatus was appointed Praetorian prefect (218/222). Antiochianus must have been an official colleague. According to Cassius Dio , both were killed along with Elagabal.
literature
- Detlef Liebs : Court lawyers from the Roman emperors to Justinian , Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Munich 2010, CH Beck, ISBN 978-3-7696-1654-5 , Messius .
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR )² M 518
Remarks
- ↑ Digest 49,14,50.
- ^ Cassius Dio , Roman History 79,21,1.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Messius extricatus, Titus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Messius extricatus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 217 and Praetorian prefect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 210 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 218 |