Quintus Curtius Rufus (suffect consul)
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman politician and senator of the 1st century AD.
The main features of Rufus' career are known from reports by Tacitus and Pliny . Although he came from the lowest classes of the people (allegedly he was the son of a gladiator ), he succeeded in attaining a senatorial career through the mediation of his friends and his own ability, and later also through imperial favor .
The bursary and praetur (16/21?) Are mentioned (he even received these as a candidate for the emperor), then he seems to have waited a long time for the consulate until he finally became the suffect consulate in 43 . Shortly afterwards, in the year 47, he was a legate of the armed forces in Upper Germany and received the ornamenta triumphalia as such , although he only had silver searched in the area of the Mattiac soldiers. As he had been prophesied in his youth (it is you, Rufus, who will come to this province as proconsul ), he became - probably under Emperor Nero - proconsul of the province of Africa , in which he later also died. Ursula Vogel-Weidemann dated this governorship to the year 58/59 with a certain degree of uncertainty.
literature
- Ursula Vogel-Weidemann : The governors of Africa and Asia in the years 14–68 AD. An investigation into the relationship between Princeps and Senate (= Antiquitas. Series 1: Treatises on ancient history. Volume 31). Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7749-1412-5 , pp. 184-188.
- Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian (= Skrifter utgivna av svenska institutet i Rom / Acta instituti romani regni sueciae. Volume 4 °, LIII). Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 38.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Curtius Rufus, Quintus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rufus, Quintus Curtius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman suffect consul 43 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century |