Titus Vestricius Spurinna

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Titus Vestricius Spurinna (* around 25 AD; † after 105) was a Roman politician living in the 1st century AD and two-time consul in the early imperial period .

Origin and family environment

Titus Vestricius Spurinna came from a family that already existed in the late Roman Republic . Presumably he was a descendant of another Titus Vestricius Spurinna, namely the augur of that name (so Plutarch ; for other authors he was just Haruspex ), who warned Gaius Julius Caesar of this day on the eve of the Ides of March (44 BC) would have. He was born around the year 25 AD; his parents are unknown.

Political and military career

It is not known how the beginnings of Spurinna's political career played out. He became a senator under Nero at the latest . In ancient literature he did not appear until 69 as a legacy of Appius Annius Gallus , the suffect consul of 67. In this capacity he occupied and defended the city of Placentia for Emperor Otho against the supporters of Vitellius , who was raised by his troops to Emperor, under Aulus Caecina Alienus . He managed to claim placentia; then he joined the main power. Then it does not appear in the ancient sources until the year 97. In this interval he officiated as a suffect consul for the first time at a controversial point in time. Under Domitian he was reset. Later he was governor of the province of Germania inferior in a year that is also not exactly known (possibly for a short time in AD 97) . As such, he put the pro-Roman, sold by his tribe king of Brukterer without a fight again. For this he received a triumph statue from Nerva . In 97 he was assigned to a commission to reduce the state budget, but did not accept this offer for health reasons. He was probably friends not only with Nerva, but also with Emperor Trajan , since he became a suffect consul for the second time on April 1, 98. After Pliny the Younger, who was more closely related to him, he also tried his hand at being a poet.

Spurinna's wife was a Cottia. He had a son, Vestricius Cottius, who died in adolescence.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cicero , De divinatione 119; Plutarch, Caesar 63.5 f .; Suetonius , Caesar 81.4; among others
  2. ↑ Pliny , epistulae 3,1,10.
  3. ↑ Tacitus , Historiae 2,11,2.
  4. ↑ Tacitus, Historiae 2,18; Plutarch, Otho 5.
  5. ↑ Tacitus, Historiae 2,36,2.
  6. ↑ Pliny, Epistulae 2,7,2.
  7. ↑ Pliny Epistulae 2,7,1 f.
  8. ↑ Pliny, Panegyricus 62.2.
  9. ↑ Pliny, Epistulae 2,1,9.
  10. ↑ PIR² 446
  11. ↑ Pliny, Epistulae 1,7.
  12. ↑ Pliny, Epistulae 2.7.
personal data
SURNAME Vestricius Spurinna, Titus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spurinna, Titus Vestricius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul
DATE OF BIRTH at 25
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century