Titus Curtilius Mancia

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Titus Curtilius Mancia was a Roman politician and senator at the time of Nero , in the middle of the 1st century AD. After the suffect consulate 55 he was governor of Upper Germany and then possibly of Africa .

origin

Its origin is not known for certain; However, various indications suggest that he came from the province of Gallia Narbonensis : During this period (probably due to the influence of Nero's advisor, Sextus Afranius Burrus ), some governors of Germanic provinces came from this region. In addition, Mancia's daughter married the Narbonese nobleman Domitius Lucanus .

No other senator is known by this gentile name , so Mancia seems to have been a homo novus .

career

In 55 Titus Curtilius Mancia was together with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus suffect consul. Presumably the two were in office in November and December. Edmund Groag suspected that Mancia was replaced by a successor before the end of the year; Miriam Griffin attributed this possible premature resignation to the fact that he had to take up his new office at the beginning of the next year. However, both claims have not been universally accepted.

As early as 56, Titus Curtilius Mancia was , according to the ancient writer Phlegon von Tralleis , in succession to Lucius Antistius Vetus as "legatus Augusti pro praetore" governor of the province of Germania superior (Upper Germany). Until 58 he is certainly attested for this office: His colleague in Lower Germany , Lucius Duvius Avitus , asked him this year for military support for the campaign against the Ampsivarians in what is now Emsland . Mancia seems to have followed the request and to have advanced with an army across the Rhine into the so-called Germania magna . It is not known when he resigned from the governorship; it is possible that he remained in Germania until Publius Sulpicius Scribonius Proculus took office, i.e. 63 at the latest.

The Lex Manciana , a law governing the administration of state and imperial land in the province of Africa, is known from several ancient inscriptions . Based on the name, various scholars have suggested that Titus Curtilius Mancia issued it. From this it was in turn concluded that he was governor or extraordinary legate of the emperor in Africa - either during the reign of Nero or not until the Flavian era . Ultimately, however, it is neither certain whether Mancia has a relationship to the law, nor whether it came into being at all during his lifetime or whether it may not come from the Roman Republic .

Heir and descendants

Pliny the Younger reports in one of his letters ( epistulae ) that Mancia couldn't stand his son-in-law Domitius Lucanus. That is why he bequeathed his inheritance not to his (apparently only) daughter, but to his granddaughter, and stipulated that she would be freed from her father's control . When the succession occurred, Domitius Lucanus actually released his daughter from his guardianship and let her take over the inheritance. At the same time, however, she was adopted by Lucanus' brother Domitius Tullus, so that she indirectly remained in paternal power and the Domitius brothers could dispose of the inheritance of Titus Curtilius Mancia.

Mancia's granddaughter, Domitia Lucilla “the elder” , was the grandmother of Emperor Marcus Aurelius through her daughter of the same name .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Eck : The governors of the Germanic provinces in the 1st – 3rd centuries. Century (= epigraphic studies. Volume 14). Rheinland-Verlag on commission from Rudolf Habelt, Cologne / Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0807-8 , p. 25.
  2. ^ Ronald Syme : Personal Names in Annals I-VI. In: The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 39, 1949, pp. 6-18, here p. 12.
  3. ↑ CIL VI, 32352 ; AE 1973, 144
  4. ↑ Miriam Griffin : Seneca. A philosopher in politics. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1976, ISBN 0-19-814774-0 , p. 120.
  5. ↑ Phlegon von Tralleis , De mirabilibus 27 ( Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum , Volume 3, Fragment 56).
  6. ↑ Tacitus , Annales 13,56,2.
  7. ^ Werner Eck: The governors of the Germanic provinces in the 1st – 3rd centuries. Century (= epigraphic studies. Volume 14). Rheinland-Verlag on commission from Rudolf Habelt, Cologne / Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0807-8 , p. 26.
  8. ↑ For example Eric Birley : Review of "The governors of the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletianus" by Bengt E. Thomasson. In: The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 52, 1962, pp. 219–227, here p. 221.
  9. ↑ Pliny the Younger , epistulae VIII, 18.4.
  10. ↑ Werner Eck: Domitia [7]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , column 745.
personal data
SURNAME Curtilius Mancia, Titus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and governor of Germania
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 1st century