Publius Tullius Marsus

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Publius Tullius Marsus was a Roman senator and in 206, together with Marcus Caelius Faustinus, a suffect consul .

Marsus and his colleague Faustinus had been completely unknown until they found a military diploma . Senators or knights of procuratorial rank with the gentile name Tullius are hardly known from the later 2nd or the beginning of the 3rd century. Only one Tullius Menophilus came to the consulate before the year 238, but nothing of his family connections has been recorded. But the name of a clarissima femina , Tullia Marsilla Quentinia Rossia Rufina Rufia Procula , which appears in an inscription from Bolsena, may indicate a connection. The senatorial woman can certainly not be dated before the end of the 2nd century and is perhaps connected with the Tullii Varrones family from Tarquinia , which rose to the highest rank in the Traian -Antonine period , but certainly with the Volsini family of the Rufii , who have since 2nd century occupied a dominant position in this city.

After the Tullii Varrones, Marsus is the only previously known senatorial Tullius with the prenomen Publius, his cognomen Marsus can probably be combined with the cognomen of Tullia Marsilla . It can therefore be assumed that Marsus was related to the Tarquinese family of the Tullii Varrones and could have come from Etruria without, of course, more precise genealogical connections being established. After all, the new suffect consul seems to be an example of how a senatorial family reappears in the political bustle of Rome after a few generations in which none of its members is known in the Senate.

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