Rutilius pudens crispinus
Rutilius Pudens Crispinus was a Roman senator of the 3rd century AD. He belonged to the committee of the Vigintiviri in 238 and held the consulate by this year at the latest .
Crispinus was of Italian origin and came from the plebeian gens Rutilia. Originally he did not belong to the nobility , but made a career as homo novus . At the beginning of his career he was the commander ( prefect ) of the auxiliary unit cohors I Lusitanorum equitata quingenaria stationed in Egypt , which was the first stage of the so-called tres militiae within the knightly cursus honorum . Already after this first office he was raised to the rank of senator and initially as city treasurer, among other things, was responsible for the supervision of the state archive. Because of his good relations with the emperor Septimius Severus he was honored by the praefectura urbi feriarum Latinarum , which was given to generally young members of outstanding senatorial families.
From the praetor onwards, Crispinus held various praetoric offices - apparently mostly only for a short time. Some of these were located in the imperial administration, such as the monitoring of the financial policy of the Umbrian cities of Fanum (today Fano ) and Pisaurum (today Pesaro ) or that of the road system leading to the north; others, such as the legacy of the Legio XV Apollinaris stationed in Cappadocia , were military in nature. As governor he administered the provinces of Lusitania , Thrace (in 231), Syria Phoenice and (232/233) and Achaea (towards the end of the period between 233 and 237). The latest in the Year of the Six Emperors 238 he held as Suffektkonsul the consulate. Crispinus was elected to the body of the Vigintiviri in 238, an important Senate commission that advised the emperors Gordian I and Gordian II and organized the defense of Italy against Maximinus Thrax . He was elected dux by the Senate and, together with Tullius Menophilus, led the defense of the besieged city of Aquileia against Maximinus.
He was then governor of Hispania citerior and imperial commissioner to carry out the census in the provinces of Lugdunensis and Baetica .
swell
- Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (CIG) 4483
- AE 1929, 158
- CIL 15, 2192
- Herodian , History of the Empire according to Mark Aurel 8,2,5.
- Historia Augusta , Vita Maximini Duo 21.6–22.1 ( Original text , English translation )
- Historia Augusta, Vita Maximi et Balbini 12.2 ( Original text , English translation )
literature
- Karlheinz Dietz : Senatus contra principem. Investigations into the senatorial opposition to Emperor Maximinus Thrax (= Vestigia . Volume 29). CH Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-04799-8 , pp. 210-226.
- Werner Eck : Rutilius II, 8. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , Sp. 1172.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Dietz: Senatus contra principem. Investigations into the senatorial opposition to Emperor Maximinus Thrax . Beck, Munich 1980, pp. 210-226.
- ^ Karlheinz Dietz: Senatus contra principem. Investigations into the senatorial opposition to Emperor Maximinus Thrax. Pp. 214-215.
- ^ Karlheinz Dietz: Senatus contra principem. Investigations into the senatorial opposition to Emperor Maximinus Thrax. Pp. 223-225.
- ^ Karlheinz Dietz: Senatus contra principem. Investigations into the senatorial opposition to Emperor Maximinus Thrax. Pp. 214-217.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crispinus, Rutilius pudens |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | roman senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century |