Quintus Junius Blaesus (suffect consul 10)

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Quintus Junius Blaesus was a Roman politician and senator in the first half of the 1st century AD.

Blaesus was the first of his family to enter the Senate. Little is known about his official career. Before he became a suffect consulate in 10, he was proconsul of the province of Sicily. A few years after his consulate, Blaesus became governor of the province of Pannonia , where he put an end to the mutiny of the legions in the year 14 under Drusus Caesar . From 21 to 23 he was finally proconsul of the province of Africa .

Despite three years of proconsulate, Lucius Apronius had not succeeded in defeating Tacfarinas . Tiberius now placed his hopes in Blaesus, but even this one could not inflict a decisive defeat on his opponent during the summer and autumn of 21. The proconsulate was therefore extended for the year 22/23. In winter 21/22 the fighting continued without a winter camp in Africa. Against the enemy, Blaesus used the same methods as his predecessor and succeeded in capturing Tacfarinas' brother. As if the war had ended, Tiberius gave Blaesus the ornamenta triumphalia and allowed him to be greeted by the soldiers as an emperor . The events under the proconsulate of Blaesus' successor Publius Cornelius Dolabella show that the war was not yet over .

When Blaesus' nephew Lucius Aelius Seianus was charged with treason and executed in 31, Blaesus’s career came to an end. His son of the same name was a suffect consul in 28.

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SURNAME Junius Blaesus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blaesus, Quintus Junius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul 10
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century