Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus (consul 123)

Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus
Military diploma RMM 22, dated April 14th 123, attesting him as ordinary consul
ordinary consul

Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus was a Roman senator of the second century. He was ordinary consul as the colleague of Quintus Articuleius Paetinus in 123. ^[1] Subsequent to his consulate, Priscus was proconsular governor of Asia in 138 and 139. ^[2] He is known primarily through inscriptions.

While Ronald Syme suggested that Priscus was the son of Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus, suffect consul in 92, J. Scheid has shown this is unlikely; ^[3] nevertheless, Priscus was a member of the patrician class. ^[4] Further there is "no doubt" that Priscus is the father of Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus, suffect consul around 145 and ordinary consul in 168. ^[5]

The Venuleii family owned the magnificent villa-estate at Massaciuccoli.

References

1. Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl, "Neue Diplome mit den Namen von Konsuln und Statthaltern," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 187 (2013), p. 282
2. Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 211
3. Scheid, "Note sur les Venuleii Aproniani", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 52 (1983), pp. 225-228
4. Syme, Some Arval Brethren (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), p. 38 n
5. Olli Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 89

Political offices
Preceded by Gaius Trebius Maximus, and Titus Calestrius Tiro Orbius Speratus as suffect consuls	Consul of the Roman Empire AD 123 with Quintus Articuleius Paetinus	Succeeded by Titus Prifernius Geminus, and Publius Metilius Secundus as suffect consuls