Quintus Voconius Saxa Fidus

Quintus Voconius Saxa Fidus was a Roman senator in the 2nd century AD.

Quintus Voconius Saxa came from a plebeian family that originally came from Aricia and had been around since the 2nd century BC. Occurred in Roman politics, first with Quintus Voconius Saxa , tribune of the people 169 BC. Chr.

The date of birth of Quintus Voconius Saxa Fidus is not known, but due to his official career ( cursus honorum ), which is known from two inscriptions, he must have been born a few years before the end of the 1st century. Accordingly, he held the office of decemvir stlitibus iudicandis in the Vigintivirat . He was then successively military tribune of Legio III Cyrenaica and Legio XII Fulminata . During Trajan's participation in the Parthian War , he was honored by the emperor. Soon after the year 127 he became quaestor pro praetore for the province of Macedonia . Other offices were the People's Tribunate and the Praetur . As curator viae Valeriae Tiburtinae around 132/133 he raised troops.

Around 141 he was entrusted with a military command, as a legate of the Legio IIII Scythica . He was then proconsul of the province of Bithynia et Pontus in 142/143 , and then from 143 to 146 as legatus Augusti pro praetore, the governor of Lycia et Pamphylia . After these foreign offices, Quintus Voconius Saxa Fidus was rewarded with the office of suffect consul for the year 146. He is listed with his colleague, Gaius Annianus Verus , in two military diplomas dated October 11, 146; the two held their office from September to October. After his consulate he was 162 proconsul of the province of Africa . Nothing is known about his further life or date of death.

See also

• List of Roman consuls
• List of governors of Africa
• List of governors of Lycia et Pamphylia

literature

• Werner Eck : Voconius [II 2]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tassilo Schmitt : Voconius I; 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 .
2. ↑ Titulia Asiae Minoris 2,1201 (from Phaselis ); Inscriptions from Perge 154 .
3. ↑ CIL 3, 6885
4. ↑ Attilio Degrassi : Inscriptiones Italiae 13,1,204 ff.
5. ↑ Military diplomas from 146 ( ZPE-195-230a , ZPE-195-230b ).
6. ↑ Werner Eck , Paul Holder , Andreas Pangerl, Peter Weiß : A surprising phenomenon: New witnesses in two diplomas for the troops of Moesia inferior from October 11, 146 In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 195 (2015), p. 222 –230, here p. 224 ( online ).
7. ↑ CIL 8, 11029