Quintus Pompey Falco

Quintus Pompeius Falco († after 140 AD) was a politician and general during the Roman Empire .

Falco probably came from Sicily , where his family owned land. His parents were named Sextus Pompeius Rufus and Clodia Falconilla, his full name was Quintus Roscius Coelius Murena Silius Decianus Vibullius Pius Iulius Eurycles Herculanus Pompeius Falco.

In 97 Falco, as the tribune of the people, attracted the attention of the younger Pliny , from whom several letters have been received. Around 101/102 he commanded the legio V Macedonica as the legate of Emperor Trajan in the first Dacian war . From 103 to 104/105 he was governor ( Legatus Augusti pro praetore ) of the province of Lycia et Pamphylia ; then he became governor in Iudaea , where he also commanded the legio X Fretensis . A military diploma shows that he was a suffect consul with Marcus Titius Lustricus Bruttianus in 108 . Another military diploma proves that he was 116 governor of the province of Moesia inferior ; it is also found in 117 in the province. After that he was governor of Britannia until 122 under Trajan's successor Hadrian . Perhaps he started building Hadrian's Wall . He then administered the rich province of Asia as proconsul until 124 .

Falco later retired into private life and devoted himself to horticulture, among other things. Around 140 he showed the future emperor Marcus Aurelius his fruit trees during a visit. With his wife Sosia Pollia, daughter of the two-time consul Quintus Sosius Senecio , he had a son, Quintus Pompeius Sosius Priscus , who held the consulate in 149.

Falco had been a member of the quindecimviri sacris faciundis priesthood since 109 .

See also

List of Roman consuls List of governors of Britain List of Roman governors in Judea

List of governors of Lycia et Pamphylia List of governors of Lower Moesia

literature

• Werner Eck : Pompey [II 8]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , column 111 f. (with further references).
• John Hazel: Who's Who in the Roman World . 2nd Edition. Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-29162-3 , pp. 107 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Pliny, Letters 1, 23 .
2. ↑ Werner Eck : Annual and provincial fasts of the senatorial governors from 69/70 to 138/139 In: Chiron , Volume 13 (1983), pp. 147-238, here p. 222 ( online ).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Military diplomas from 108 ( AE 2004, 1898 ) and 116 ( AE 2006, 1863 ).
4. ↑ Werner Eck, Andreas Pangerl: New diplomas for the auxiliary troops in the Mösischen provinces from Vespasian to Hadrian In: Dacia 50 (2006), p. 93-104, here p. 100 ( online ).
5. ↑ CIL 10, 6321 , CIL 3, 12117 , CIL 6, 3844 .