Quintus Sosius Senecio
Quintus Sosius Senecio († around 110) was a politician and general during the Roman Empire .
Senecio was a friend of the future emperor Hadrian , the younger Pliny and Plutarch , whom he had met as proconsul of Achaia and who dedicated his parallel lives to him. He was married to Iulia Frontina - a daughter of the writer and senator Frontinus - and served as commander under Emperor Trajan . In 99 he held the ordinary consulate with Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus , in 105/106 he fought in Trajan's second Dacian war and received the ornamenta triumphalia . In 107 he was consul for the second time together with Lucius Licinius Sura , a close friend of the emperor. His daughter Sosia Polla married the influential officer and politician Quintus Pompeius Falco .
literature
- Werner Eck : Sosius II 4th In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Col. 746 f.
- Bernadette Puech: Senecio (Quintus Sosius) . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques . tape 6 . CNRS Éditions, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-271-08989-2 , pp. 203 .
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| SURNAME | Sosius Senecio, Quintus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Senecio, Quintus Sosius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General and politician under Emperor Trajan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 110 |