Publius Iuventius Celsus (Consul 164)

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A copy of the petition ( libellus ) of the imperial freedman Arrius Alphius from the year 155 that the promagister the priests quorum of pontifices approved (CIL 06, 2120)

Publius Iuventius Celsus was a Roman politician and senator of the 2nd century AD.

Celsus probably came from northern Italy, where the gentile name Iuventius was widespread and family members of senatorial rank are also occupied. He was hardly a son, but rather the grandson of the lawyer Publius Iuventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus . Probably between 161 and 163 he was a legate of the province of Galatia in Asia Minor . Immediately afterwards he held the ordinary consulate in 164 , as his grandfather, who was consul twice, in 129. Later offices of Celsus are not recorded. His activity as promagister of the priestly college of the pontifices since 155 (attested as such in the inscription CIL 6, 2120 ) is significant .

literature

  • Leonhard Schumacher : Prosopographical investigations into the occupation of the four high Roman priests colleges in the age of the Antonine and the Severer (96–235 AD). Dissertation, Mainz 1973, p. 28 No. 63, p. 283 f.
  • Géza Alföldy : Consulate and senatorial rank under the Antonines. Prosopographical investigations into the senatorial leadership class (= Antiquitas . Series 1: Treatises on ancient history. Volume 27). Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-7749-1334-X , pp. 101, 177, 194, 255, 276, 310.
  • Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR )² I 881.
personal data
SURNAME Celsus, Publius Iuventius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iuventius Celsus, Publius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION roman consul 164
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century or 3rd century