Quintus Camurinus Numisius Junior

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Quintus Camurinus Numisius Junior was a Roman senator active during the later second century AD. He was suffect consul for a nundinium in the first half of the year 161 as the colleague of Marcus Annius Libo. [1]

Roman consul High political office in ancient Rome

A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic, and ancient Romans considered the consulship the highest level of the cursus honorum.

Nundinium, a Latin word derived from the word nundinum signifying the cycle of days observed by the Romans, which came to be used under the Empire to indicate a period of consulship. When, under the Empire, several pairs of consuls were created in one year, the period of a single consulship was called a nundinium.

Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman senator. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of January-April 161 with Quintus Camurinus Numisius Junior as his colleague. Libo was the nephew of emperor Antoninus Pius, and cousin to emperor Marcus Aurelius.

His gentilicum Camurinus points to a connection with the Trajanic equites C. Camurius C.f. Clemens. [2] While some authorities believe Numisius Junior was descended from the equites, Olli Salomies in his monograph on Imperial Roman naming practices believes it is more likely he was adopted by a brother of Clemens than Clemens himself. [3] A number of inscriptions with his name at Attidium in Umbria indicate that city was his home. One mentions a woman who might be his wife, Stertinia L.f. Cocceia Bassula Venecia Aeliana Junior, and a man who might be his son, Quintus Cornelius Flaccus [Stertinus?] Noricus Numisius [Junior?]. [4] Anthony Birley believes his wife Stertinia was a descendant of Lucius Stertinius Noricus, consul in 113. [5]

The equites constituted the second of the property-based classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the senatorial class. A member of the equestrian order was known as an eques.

Umbria Region of Italy

Umbria is a region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the River Tiber. The regional capital is Perugia. Umbria is known for its landscapes, traditions, history, culinary delights, artistic legacy, and influence on culture.

Anthony Richard Birley is a British ancient historian, archaeologist and academic. He was the Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester (1974–1990) and at University of Düsseldorf (1990–2002). He is the son of the archaeologist Eric Birley, who bought the house next to Vindolanda where Anthony and his brother Robin began to excavate the site. They have both taken part in many of the excavations there, and Robin now runs them. He was educated at Clifton College, 1950–1955; Magdalen College, Oxford, 1956–1963 : BA, 1st cl. Hons., 1960;

Career

His cursus honorum can be reconstructed from one of the inscriptions at Attidium. [6] Numisius Junior began in his teens as one of the tresviri monetalis , the most prestigious of the four boards that comprise the vigintiviri ; assignment to this board was usually allocated to patricians or favored individuals. This was followed by a commission as military tribune in Legio IX Hispana, stationed in Roman Britain; Birley dates this to the 140s. [5] Junior was afterwards appointed quaestor, which he discharged at Rome; about this time he was admitted to the sodales Titalis Flaviales . He then advanced through the traditional Republican magistracies of curule aedile and praetor. Géza Alföldy estimates the date of this last office as around the year 150. [7]

<i>Cursus honorum</i> The sequential order of public offices held by politicians in Ancient Rome

The cursus honorum was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in both the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank. The cursus honorum comprised a mixture of military and political administration posts. Each office had a minimum age for election. There were minimum intervals between holding successive offices and laws forbade repeating an office.

A military tribune was an officer of the Roman army who ranked below the legate and above the centurion. Young men of Equestrian rank often served as military tribune as a stepping stone to the Senate. The tribunus militum should not be confused with the elected political office of tribune of the people (tribunus plebis) nor with that of tribunus militum consulari potestate.

Legio IX Hispana Roman legion

Legio IX Hispana, also written Legio nona Hispana or Legio VIIII Hispana, was a legion of the Imperial Roman army that existed from the 1st century BC until at least AD 120. The legion fought in various provinces of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It was stationed in Britain following the Roman invasion in 43 AD. The legion disappears from surviving Roman records after c. AD 120 and there is no extant account of what happened to it.

After stepping down as praetor, Junior was commissioned as legatus or commander of two legions consecutively. The name of the first is lost, but Alföldy dates his command from about 152 to about 155. [8] The second was Legio VI Victrix, and Alföldy dates his command of that legion from immediately after leaving the first legion to around 158. [9] It was an unusual situation for a man to command more than one legion; Birley offers a list of no more than 30 men who had done so, and he notes that "where evidence is available, special circumstances can be seen to have brought about the iterated command." [10] Birley attributes the cause in Junior's case to the critical military situation in Roman Britain during the mid-150s. "It is not unlikely," writes Birley, "that Numisius Junior had been commanding a legion on the Rhine, and was appointed to VI Victrix on the recommendation of Cn. Julius Verus, when the latter went from Germania Inferior to Britain. [11] After concluding his command of the VI Victrix, Numisius Junior acceded to the consulate.

<i>Legatus</i> general in the Roman army

A legatus was a high-ranking Roman military officer in the Roman Army, equivalent to a modern high-ranking general officer. Initially used to delegate power, the term became formalised under Augustus as the officer in command of a legion.

Legio VI Victrix Roman legion

Legio sexta victrix was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in 41 BC by the general Octavian. It was the twin legion of VI Ferrata and perhaps held veterans of that legion, and some soldiers kept to the traditions of the Caesarian legion.

Gnaeus Julius Verus was Roman senator and general of the mid-2nd century AD. He was suffect consul, and governed several important imperial provinces: Germania Inferior, Britain, and Syria.

His life after the consulate is a blank.

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References

  1. ↑ Werner Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013), p. 80
  2. ↑ Attested at AE 1987, 354
  3. ↑ Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinski: Societas Scientiarum Fenica, 1992), p. 100
  4. ↑ CIL XI, 5672
  5. 1 2 Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 255
  6. ↑ CIL XI, 5670
  7. ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 336
  8. ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 302
  9. ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 299
  10. ↑ Birley, Fasti of Roman Britain, pp. 18-20
  11. ↑ Birley, Fasti of Roman Britain, pp. 255f
Political offices
Preceded by
Marcus Aurelius Caesar III,
and Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus  II
as Ordinary consuls		 Consul of the Roman Empire
AD 161
with Marcus Annius Libo 		Succeeded by
Julius Geminus Capellianus,
and Titus Flavius Boethus
as Suffect consuls
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