Quintus Haterius

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Quintus Haterius (* approx. 65 BC; † late 26 AD) was a Roman senator of the early Imperial period.

Haterius came from a plebeian family that did not exist until the 2nd half of the 1st century BC. And entered the Senate. He was probably the son of the senator and legal scholar Haterius mentioned by Marcus Tullius Cicero , who lived in 43 BC. . Chr proscribed was.

Haterius became quaestor , tribune of the people and praetor one after the other , thus went through the official career ( cursus honorum ) customary for attaining the consulate and was then appointed in 5 BC. Chr. Suffect consul . He was a typical courtier who distinguished himself through exaggerated flattery towards the Principes Augustus and Tiberius . Because of this penchant for flattery, he was repugnant to Tiberius, despite his distant relationship to the Princeps. In AD 14, the emperor's mother, Livia Drusilla , protected him from Tiberius' wrath. He was an excellent speaker who in the year 16, probably to please the emperor, who despised exaggerated luxury, gave a speech in the Senate against the luxury of the Roman upper class. Even Seneca emphasized his eloquence. In the year 22 Haterius made a fool of himself when he applied for exaggerated honors for the son of the emperor, the younger Drusus .

Haterius died almost 90 years old at the end of the year 26. He had at least two sons, Sextus, who died during his lifetime, and the full consul of the year 22, Decimus Haterius Agrippa .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 9, 18, 3.
  2. ^ Attilio Degrassi : Inscriptiones Italiae XIII, 1, p. 284.
  3. ^ Suetonius , Tiberius 29.
  4. ^ Suetonius, Tiberius 1, 13.
  5. ^ Suetonius, Tiberius 2, 33, 1.
  6. ↑ Seneca, epistulae 40, 10.
  7. ↑ Tacitus , Annales 3, 57, 2.
  8. ^ Tacitus, Annales 4, 61 .
personal data
SURNAME Haterius, Quintus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION roman senator
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 65 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 26th