Tiberius Claudius Candidus

Memorial stone of Tiberius Claudius Candidus, military tribune of LEG II AVG around 200 AD.
Location: Tarragona, Hispania citerior
For Tiberius Claudius Candidus, the consul, Quindecimvir, governor of two emperors in the province of Hispania Citerior and here general on land and against water the rebels (and) enemies of the state, also (governors) of Asia and Noricum, commander of the Illyrian army group during the campaign in Asia as well as against the Parthians and in Gaul, finance commissioner of the most prestigious city Nicomedia, also of Ephesus, praetoric legate of the province of Asia, commissioner of the city of Teanum, accepted into the ranks of the former praetors and (people) tribune, procurator of the five percent inheritance tax for the Gallia Lugdunensis and the (Gallia) Belgica as well as both Germania, commander of the troops in the second war against the Teutons, military tribune of the Legio II Augusta , prefect of the 2nd cohort of Roman citizens, (from) Silius Hospes, Hastatus of the Legio X Gemina as S trator for the best governor.

Tiberius Claudius Candidus was a Roman knight, politician, and senator of the late 2nd century AD

Life

Claudius Candidus came from Numidia and began his cursus honorum (official career) as Eques (knight) under Marcus Aurelius (161-180). He served as the auxiliary prefect of the Cohors II Civium Romanorum . Then he became Tribunus Militum ( military tribune ) of the Legio II Augusta in Britain . Around 177 he was in command of the British vexillations in the Second Marcomannic War .

From Commodus (180-192) he was raised to the rank of senator. In the second year of the four emperors (193) he fought as dux des exercitus Illyricus for Septimius Severus against Pescennius Niger . After the victory over Niger, Candidus stayed in the east with Septimius Severus and took part in the successful expeditio Parthica , the war against the Parthians , in 195 . In the course of the campaign, the Adiabene and Osrhoene dominions came under Roman control.

In 195 or 196, Candidus was awarded the suffect consulate .

In the civil war (196-197) against Clodius Albinus , Candidus was also successful. From 197 to 199 Claudius Candidus legatus Augustorum pro praetore provinciae Hispaniae citerioris (governor of the province of Hispania Citerior ) and went with the Legio VII Gemina "on land and water" (terra marique) against the declared public enemy Lucius Novius Rufus, governor the Tarraconensis , who was a follower of Clodius Albinus. Then he fell out of favor with Septimius Severus. The rest of Candidus' life has not been passed on.

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CIL 2, 4114
Cassius Dio , Roman History 75, 6, 4

literature

Prosopographia Imperii Romani , 2nd edition, C 823.
Markus Handy: The Severers and the Army . Verlag Antike, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938032-25-1 , pp. 116-117 ( Studies on Ancient History , Vol. 10).
Anthony R. Birley : Septimius Severus. The African Emperor . 2nd edition, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 978-0-415-16591-4 , pp. 109-131 (series: Roman Imperial Biographies).
Sabine Panzram: Cityscape and Elite: Tarraco, Corduba and Augusta Emerita between Republic and Late Antiquity . Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08039-2 , pp. 84-85 ( Historia, individual writings 161).
Gabriele Wesch-Klein : Social aspects of the Roman army in the imperial era . Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07300-0 , pp. 15-16 (= Habil. Heidelberg 1995).

Web links

Commons : Tiberius Claudius Candidus - collection of images, videos and audio files

Edmund Groag : Claudius 96 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2691 f.

Individual evidence

↑ CIL 2, 4114 .
^ Translation: Géza Alföldy: The Roman inscriptions of Tarraco . de Gruyter, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-11-004403-X , No. 130 ( Madrid research . Volume 10).
^ ^A ^b Gabriele Wesch-Klein: Social aspects of the Roman army in the imperial era . Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07300-0 , pp. 15-16 (= Habil. Heidelberg 1995).
↑ ^a ^b Markus Handy: The Severers and the Army . Verlag Antike, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938032-25-1 , pp. 116-117 ( Studies on Ancient History , Vol. 10).
↑ Jörg Rüpke : Fasti sacerdotum. The members of the priesthoods and the sacred functional staff of Roman, Greek, Oriental and Judeo-Christian cults in the city of Rome from 300 BC. Chr. To 499 AD. Vol. 1, Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-07456-8 , p. 879 ( Potsdamer Classical Studies , Volume 12I).
^ Sabine Panzram: Cityscape and Elite: Tarraco, Corduba and Augusta Emerita between Republic and Late Antiquity . Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08039-2 , pp. 84-85 ( Historia, individual writings 161).
^ Anthony R. Birley : Septimius Severus. The African Emperor . 2nd Edition. Routledge, 1999, ISBN 978-0-415-16591-4 , p. 131 (series: Roman Imperial Biographies).

personal data
SURNAME	Claudius Candidus, Tiberius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Candidus, Tiberius Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman knight and senator
DATE OF BIRTH	at 150
PLACE OF BIRTH	Numidia
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century or 3rd century

[1] CIL 2, 4114 .

[2] Translation: Géza Alföldy: The Roman inscriptions of Tarraco . de Gruyter, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-11-004403-X , No. 130 ( Madrid research . Volume 10).

[gabi15-3] A ^b Gabriele Wesch-Klein: Social aspects of the Roman army in the imperial era . Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07300-0 , pp. 15-16 (= Habil. Heidelberg 1995).

[mark116-4] Markus Handy: The Severers and the Army . Verlag Antike, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938032-25-1 , pp. 116-117 ( Studies on Ancient History , Vol. 10).

[5] Jörg Rüpke : Fasti sacerdotum. The members of the priesthoods and the sacred functional staff of Roman, Greek, Oriental and Judeo-Christian cults in the city of Rome from 300 BC. Chr. To 499 AD. Vol. 1, Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-07456-8 , p. 879 ( Potsdamer Classical Studies , Volume 12I).

[bine-6] Sabine Panzram: Cityscape and Elite: Tarraco, Corduba and Augusta Emerita between Republic and Late Antiquity . Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08039-2 , pp. 84-85 ( Historia, individual writings 161).

[7] Anthony R. Birley : Septimius Severus. The African Emperor . 2nd Edition. Routledge, 1999, ISBN 978-0-415-16591-4 , p. 131 (series: Roman Imperial Biographies).