Titus Sextius Africanus

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Titus Sextius Africanus (* probably before 16; † after 61) was a Roman politician of the Neronian era and consul of the year 59.

Family and personal life

Titus Sextius Africanus, "a young man of the noble family", was certainly a descendant of Titus Sextius , who lived in 44 BC. . The province of Africa Nova (Numidia) managed AD and 42, the province of Africa Vetus conquered, and probably the grandfather of the same paragraph Titus Sextius Africanus ordinary consul of the year 112 n. Chr.

At the beginning of the 50s a relationship developed with Iunia Silana , who was about the same age , a lady "of the noble sex, distinguished by origin, beauty, licentiousness". However, Titus Sextius Africanus was dissuaded from the planned marriage by the imperial mother Agrippina , "calling her lewd and elderly, not to reserve Africanus for himself, but so that he would not benefit from the wealth and childlessness of Silana as a husband".

career

In 59 Titus Sextius Africanus - not long after the assassination of Agrippina by Nero - held the post of consul with Marcus Ostorius Scapula from July to December .

In 61 he carried out the census in Gaul together with Quintus Volusius Saturninus (consul 56) and Marcus Trebellius Maximus (suffect consul 55 and later governor of Britannia ) . "Volusius and Africanus tried to dispute the rank of nobility with each other, the Trebellius, whom both despised, they only raised above themselves."

Titus Sextius was also a member of the Arval Brothers . His exact date of death is unknown.

literature

  • Gerhard Winkler: Sextius No. II 1., TS Africanus . In: The Little Pauly . Vol. 5, 1975, Col. 156 f.

Remarks

  1. a b c Tacitus , Annalen 13, 19.
  2. CIL 4, 3340 .
  3. Tacitus, Annalen 14, 46.
  4. CIL 6, 2039 .