Quintus Acutius Nerva

Weihaltar Lower Germanic soldiers from the army of Quintus Acutius Nerva to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus and Hercules Saxanus ( CIL XIII, 7716 ), LVR-RömerMuseum Xanten

Quintus Acutius Nerva was a Roman senator and consul at the turn of the 1st to the 2nd century AD.

In the 1st century AD, several people named Quintus Acutius are attested, probably belonging to the family of Quintus Acutius Nerva. He officiated in the middle of the year 100 AD together with Lucius Fabius Tuscus as a suffect consul , where he was presumably in office from July 1st to August 31st. A few months before he was - already as consul for some period of next year designated - in the Senate trial of Hostilius Firminus occurred, of which Pliny the Younger of his in a letter ( epistulae ) reported. Firminus had been a legate of the governor Marius Priscus, who had been convicted of corrupt office , and had participated in the offenses of his superior. While Cornutus Tertullus applied to expel Firminus from the senatorial rank at the Senate negotiation, Acutius suggested that his rank be retained, but to be excluded from senatorial offices in the future, and this proposal was ultimately adopted.

101/102 AD, Quintus Acutius Nerva officiated as governor ( Legatus Augusti pro praetore ) of the province of Germania inferior (Lower Germany). This is evident from three inscriptions from the Roman quarries in Brohl valley, in which he is named as the commander of the troops operating there. One of the inscriptions can have been made at the latest in AD 101 (because the Legio I Minervia named therein was then assigned to Trajan's first Dacian war ), the other two can be dated at least to the time before 104/105. Accordingly, Nerva must have gone to Lower Germany as governor directly after his consulate, either at the end of the year 100 or the beginning of 101. The activity of the Lower Germanic troops in the quarries of the Brohl valley is probably related to the fact that the soldiers were supposed to procure building material for the newly founded Colonia Ulpia Traiana (today Xanten ).

literature

Werner Eck : The governors of the Germanic provinces from 1. – 3. Century (= epigraphic studies. Volume 14). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0807-8 , p. 161 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Werner Eck: The governors of the Germanic provinces from 1. – 3. Century. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0807-8 , p. 160.
↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 2:12. On this passage see, for example, AN Sherwin-White : The Letters of Pliny. A Historical and Social Commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985 (corrected reprint of the first edition 1966), ISBN 0-19-814435-0 , p. 172.
↑ CIL 000013 XIII, 7697 ; CIL 000013 XIII, 7715 ; CIL 000013 XIII, 7716 .
↑ Werner Eck: The governors of the Germanic provinces from 1. – 3. Century. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0807-8 , p. 161.
↑ Robert Saxer: Investigations on the vexillations of the Roman imperial army from Augustus to Diocletian (= epigraphic studies. Volume 1). Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1967, p. 79.

personal data
SURNAME	Acutius Nerva, Quintus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman senator and consul (100)
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century

[1] Werner Eck: The governors of the Germanic provinces from 1. – 3. Century. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0807-8 , p. 160.

[2] Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 2:12. On this passage see, for example, AN Sherwin-White : The Letters of Pliny. A Historical and Social Commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985 (corrected reprint of the first edition 1966), ISBN 0-19-814435-0 , p. 172.

[3] CIL 000013 XIII, 7697 ; CIL 000013 XIII, 7715 ; CIL 000013 XIII, 7716 .

[4] Werner Eck: The governors of the Germanic provinces from 1. – 3. Century. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0807-8 , p. 161.

[5] Robert Saxer: Investigations on the vexillations of the Roman imperial army from Augustus to Diocletian (= epigraphic studies. Volume 1). Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1967, p. 79.