Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus

Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus (* approx. 246/249) was a Roman politician and Praetorian prefect .

Volusianus was clarissimus vir . From 281/283 to 289/291 he was, first under Emperor Carinus , then under Diocletian , Corrector Italiae (governor of Italy). Appointed proconsul of the province of Africa by Emperor Maxentius (305/306?), He - meanwhile appointed Praetorian prefect - together with Zenas put down the usurpation of Domitius Alexander in Africa (309/310). For this he was rewarded by Maxentius with the city prefecture of Rome (310-311) and the consulate for the year 311, which he held together with Aradius Rufinus .

After Maxentius had fallen in battle against his rival Constantine in 312 , Volusianus temporarily lost all honor. However, Constantine finally made him again city prefect (313-315) and consul (314). In 321 he became Praetorian prefect for the second time.

Volusianus was married to Nummia Albina, daughter of Nummius Albinus (consul 263); his son was Ceionius Rufius Albinus (consul 335).

literature

Rudolf Hanslik : Ceionius (8), (9). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 1098.
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : C. Ceionius Rufius Volusianus 4. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 976-978.
Otto Seeck : Ceionius 17 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Sp. 1859.
Prosopographia Imperii Romani . 2nd Edition. R 161

Remarks

↑ PLRE, Vol. 1, p. 977 gives a suffect consulate around 280, but this is probably a mistake, since the inscriptions for Volusianus only give two consulates.
^ Aurelius Victor , Liber de Caesaribus 40:18; Zosimos 2,14,2.
↑ See, however, Otto Seeck, Ceionius 18 , in: RE, Bd. III, 2, Col. 1859, who considers a Ceionius of the same name to be the city prefect of 310/311, “because [Volusianus] commanded and contributed to Africa at the same time of his Stadtpraefectur in the year 313–315 no iteration is noted in the chronograph of 354 ”.
↑ Codex Theodosianus 13,3,1; Codex Iustinianus 4,35,21.

personal data
SURNAME	Ceionius Rufius Volusianus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Volusianus; Rufius Volusianus; Ceionius Rufius Volusianus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman consul 311 and 314; Praetorian Prefect
DATE OF BIRTH	at 246 or 249
DATE OF DEATH	after 321

[1] PLRE, Vol. 1, p. 977 gives a suffect consulate around 280, but this is probably a mistake, since the inscriptions for Volusianus only give two consulates.

[2] Aurelius Victor , Liber de Caesaribus 40:18; Zosimos 2,14,2.

[3] See, however, Otto Seeck, Ceionius 18 , in: RE, Bd. III, 2, Col. 1859, who considers a Ceionius of the same name to be the city prefect of 310/311, “because [Volusianus] commanded and contributed to Africa at the same time of his Stadtpraefectur in the year 313–315 no iteration is noted in the chronograph of 354 ”.

[4] Codex Theodosianus 13,3,1; Codex Iustinianus 4,35,21.