Sextus Lusianus Proculus

Sextus Lusianus Proculus was a Roman politician and senator at the time of Emperor Domitian .

By military diplomas is evidence that Proculus on August 10 with 93. Titus Avidius Quietus Suffektkonsul was. After that he was a legate of the province of Germania superior . Proculus was probably the governor, who was replaced by Marcus Ulpius Traianus around the summer of 97 by the new emperor Nerva .

In connection with the suppression of the Saturnin Revolt in the winter of 88/89, Cassius Dio reports an anecdote about an elderly senator. He had spent most of the time in the country, but was then forced by Domitian to accompany him on the profectio (departure) from Rome. In response to the news of the victory, he frankly asked the emperor for vacatio (dismissal), returned to his country estate and, although he lived a long time, never visited the emperor again. The name of this βουλευτὴς γέρων ("old senator") reads in the manuscripts Λουσιανὸς ,ρόκλος , ie Lusianus Proculus . This senator, obviously of Italian origin, is otherwise unknown; he could have been the father of Sextus Lusianus Proculus.

literature

• Peter Weiß : A new legate of Domitians from Germania superior in a military diploma: Sex. Lusianus proculus. In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy . Volume 147, 2004, pp. 229-234.
• Werner Eck : Diplomas, Consuls and Lieutenants: Progress and Problems in Imperial Prosopography . In: Chiron . Volume 34, 2004, pp. 25-44, here p. 37.

Remarks

1. ↑ military diplomas of the year 93 ( ZPE 165-219 , ZPE 165-227 ).
2. ↑ Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl: A constitution for the auxiliary troops of Syria under the governor Cornelius Nigrinus from the year 93 In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 165 (2008), pp. 219–226, here p. 224 ( online ).
3. ^ Cassius Dio (at Xiphilinos ), Roman History 67, 11, 5.