Gaius Bellicius Calpurnius Torquatus

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Gaius Bellicius Calpurnius Torquatus was a Roman senator during the reign of Antoninus Pius. He was consul posterior in 148 as the colleague of Lucius Octavius Cornelius Publius Salvius Julianus Aemilianus. [1] Calpurnius Torquatus was the son of Gaius Bellicius Flaccus Torquatus Tebanianus, consul of 124, and the younger brother of Gaius Bellicius Flaccus Torquatus, consul of 143. [2]

Subsequent to his consulate, Calpurnius Torquatus was patron of the Roman town of Vienne in Gaul. [3]

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References

  1. Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 152
  2. Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, pp. 323f
  3. CIL XII, 1853
Political offices
Preceded byas suffect consuls Consul of the Roman Empire
AD 148
with Lucius Octavius Cornelius Publius Salvius Julianus Aemilianus
Succeeded byas suffect consuls