Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus

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Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus was a Roman senator who flourished during the Flavian dynasty; Brian W. Jones considers him one of Domitian's amici or advisors. [1] He held the consulate twice.

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Name and family

Older authorities refer to him as Lucius Appius Maximus Norbanus, combining Pliny the Younger's mention of him ("Lappius Maximus") [2] with a garbled passage from the Epitome de Caesaribus ("Norbanus Lappius") where his name is combined with the name of the governor of Raetia, Titus Flavius Norbanus. [3] Although his correct name is provided by a military diploma from Suhozem in Bulgaria, [4] some authorities persisted in giving the wrong name. [5]

The polyonymy of his name indicates an adoption; according to Olli Salomies, he was born a Lappius Maximus adopted by an Aulus Bucius. Salomies also notes that "all A. Lappii seem to have something to do with the senator". [6] Ronald Syme notes the gentilicium "'Lappius' is very rare." [7]

An inscription at Rome provides the name of his wife, Aelia. [8] Salomies writes that Lappia A.f. Tertulla, mentioned in a Roman inscription ( CIL VI, 31106) "is probably this man's daughter". [6] In any case, Syme notes Lappius Maximus was one of several notables living during the Flavian dynasty who "were unable to supply consular descendants." [9]

Career

The career of Lappius Maximus included being proconsular governor of Bithynia et Pontus during 83/84 [10] prior to being consul for the first time for the nundinium September to December 86 with Gaius Octavius Tidius Tossianus Lucius Javolenus Priscus as his colleague. [11] Then he was consular legate of Germania Inferior during 87 to 89, [12] during which time he assisted in crushing the revolt of Lucius Antonius Saturninus in the adjacent province of Germania Superior. Afterwards he was immediately assigned to the consular legateship of Syria from 89 to 92, [13] before holding the fasces a second time for the nundinium May to August 95 with Publius Ducenius Verus as his colleague; [14] occupying the office of consul was a distinction Syme notes "that had become preternaturally rare in the course of the previous century." [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 59
  2. ↑ Pliny, Epistulae, X.58.6
  3. ↑ Epitome de Caesaribus, xi.10
  4. ↑ AE 1961, 319
  5. ↑ As an example, Oxford Classical Dictionary , 2nd edition (1970), "Norbanus (2)", and "Saturninus (3)"
  6. 1 2 Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 95
  7. ↑ Syme, Tacitus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), p. 647
  8. ↑ CIL VI, 1347 = ILS 1006
  9. ↑ Syme, Tacitus, p. 228 n. 3
  10. ↑ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron , 12 (1982), pp. 307f
  11. ↑ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly , 31 (1981), pp. 190, 216
  12. ↑ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", p. 314
  13. ↑ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 316-319
  14. ↑ Gallivan, "The Fasti", pp. 192, 218
  15. ↑ Syme, Tacitus, p. 51
Political offices
Preceded by
Sextus Octavius Fronto,
and Tiberius Julius Candidus Marius Celsus
as Suffect consuls		 Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
86
with Gaius Octavius Tidius Tossianus Lucius Javolenus Priscus 		Succeeded by
Domitian XIII,
and Lucius Volusius Saturninus
as Ordinary consuls
Preceded by
Lucius Neratius Marcellus,
and Titus Flavius Clemens
as Ordinary consuls		 Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
95
with Publius Ducenius Verus 		Succeeded by
Quintus Pomponius Rufus,
and Lucius Baebius Tullus
as Suffect consuls
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