Tiberius Catius Caesius Fronto
Tiberius Catius Caesius Fronto was a Roman senator and consul in the 1st and early 2nd centuries AD.
Life
Tiberius Catius Caesius Fronto lived in the 2nd half of the 1st and 1st half of the 2nd century AD, without the date of his birth and death being recorded. He came from a plebeian family and was respected as a speaker and politician under the emperors Nerva and Trajan . Although nothing is known about his political beginnings, he must have completed the cursus honorum , because he became a suffect consul in 96 AD immediately after Nerva's takeover of power . When the trials against informers became rampant at that time, the suffect consul Fronto is said to have said that it was bad if no one was allowed anything under a princeps, but it would be even worse if a princeps allowed everyone to do everything. As a result, Nerva forbade trials against informers.
The for aggravated assault in his term as proconsul of the province of Africa court respondent Marius Priscus defended Pronto 100 n. Chr. Against Tacitus and Pliny . He also appeared in 102/103 as the advocate of Iulius Bassus , who had previously been the proconsul of Bithynia et Pontus and against whom a repetition procedure was now initiated ; ultimately Iulius Bassus obtained an acquittal for himself.
In addition to his political career, Fronto also held one of the most coveted religious offices: for the years 101 and 105 he is mentioned as frater arvalis . As an important speaker he was a moving man who moved to tears ( vir movendarum lacrimarum ), as Pliny calls him in his letters.
See also
literature
- Edmund Groag : Catius 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 1792 f.
- Eitel Fischer: Catius II 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Sp. 1586.
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIL 16, 40
- ^ Cassius Dio , Römische Geschichte 68, 1, 3.
- ↑ Pliny, Letters 2, 11, 3 and 2, 11, 18.
- ↑ Pliny, Letters 4, 9, 15.
- ↑ CIL 6, 2074 and CIL 6, 2075
- ↑ Pliny, Letters 2, 11, 3.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Catius Caesius Fronto, Tiberius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fronto, Tiberius Catius Caesius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman suffect consul 96 AD |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century |