Publius Ducenius Verres (Consul 95)

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Publius Ducenius Verres was a Roman politician living in the 1st century AD .

A military diploma proves that Verres was a suffect consul with Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus in 95 . Also in the Fasti Ostienses he is documented as an official for the year 95, whereby only the first part of the name ("P. Duce [...]") is preserved in the inscription. In addition, however, it appears from the Fasti that Verres was in office from May to August inclusive.

Verres also appears probably in the collection of legal cases of the Roman jurist Publius Iuventius Celsus , who worked in the early 2nd century. There, however, his name is given as "Ducenius Verus", so that it is not entirely certain that the consul mentioned there is identical to the one from 95. In research, however, this equation is generally accepted. The name discrepancy could have arisen from the fact that the rather unusual name Verres was erroneously corrected to the more common “Verus” when copying the text. The passage of Celsus is preserved as a quote in the digests of the Corpus iuris civilis and reads as follows:

"CELSUS libro trigesimo sexto digestorum. Father meus referebat, cum esset in consilio Duceni Veri consulis, itum in sententiam suam [...] "

“CELSUS in the 36th book of his Digest. As my father reported, when he was on the advice of the consul Ducenius Verus, his opinion was approved in the following case: [...] "

It is possible that the Publius Ducenius, who is attested in inscriptions as pontiff for the years 101/102 and whose cognomen has not been preserved, is Publius Ducenius Verres.

His son of the same name, Publius Ducenius Verres , was a suffect consul in 124.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AEA 2009, 00030 ; First published in: Hannsjörg Ubl : Fragments of three unedited Norwegian military diplomas made of stone near St. Pantaleon, pol. District Amstetten, Lower Austria. In: Roman Austria. Volume 32, 2009, pp. 107–121, here pp. 107–112.
  2. ↑ Ladislav Vidman: Fasti Ostienses. 2nd edition, Academia Scientiarum Bohemoslovacae, Prague 1982, p. 45, fragment Fb.
  3. ^ Marita Holzner, Ingrid Weber-Hiden: Annona epigraphica Austriaca 2009. In: Tyche . Volume 25, 2010, pp. 185-204, here p. 194 f. ( online ).
  4. ↑ Werner Eck, Peter Weiß: Hadrianische Konsuln. New certificates from military diplomas. In: Chiron. Volume 32, 2002, pp. 449–489, here p. 472 (the other speculations there result from the fact that Eck and Weiss did not yet know the military diploma of the year 95 and the cognomen has not been handed down in the Fasti Ostienses).
  5. ↑ Digest 31.29; quoted from: Rolf Knütel , Berthold Kupisch , Thomas Rüfner , Hans Hermann Seiler (eds.): Corpus Iuris Civilis. Text and translation. Volume V: Digest 28-34. CF Müller, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8114-6444-5 , p. 347 f. (Translation slightly modified).
  6. ↑ CIL VI, 31034 and CIL VI, 32445 ; for equation see Edmund Groag : Ducenius 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 1755.
  7. ↑ Werner Eck, Peter Weiß: Hadrianische Konsuln. New certificates from military diplomas. In: Chiron. Volume 32, 2002, pp. 449-489, here pp. 471-473.
personal data
SURNAME Ducenius Verres, Publius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul in 95
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 1st century or 2nd century