Quintus Haterius Antoninus

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Quintus Haterius Antoninus or known as Antoninus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Claudius and Nero.

Life

He was suffect consul in the year AD 53 as the colleague of Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus. [1]

Antoninus was the only child to Domitia Lepida the Elder and Decimus Haterius Agrippa, consul in 22. [2] His paternal grandfather was the influential orator and senator Quintus Haterius; Ronald Syme suggests that his paternal grandmother was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Caecilia Attica. [3] Sabina Tariverdieva believes her to be the daughter of Agrippa's sister Vipsania Polla. [4]

By the year 58 Antoninus had squandered his inheritance through extravagances, when emperor Nero gave him a yearly stipend of 500,000 sesterces; Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus and Aurelius Cotta, who had likewise squandered their inheritances, also received yearly stipends from the emperor. [5] According to Seneca the Younger, Haterius Antoninus was considered by some as a professional legacy hunter. [6]

References

  1. Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly , 28 (1978), pp. 409, 425.
  2. Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 162.
  3. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 145.
  4. "Децим Гатерий Агриппа (Консул 22 Г. Н.э.): Происхождение И Родство С Императорским Домом". Vestnik Drevnei Istorii . 1 (288): 88–101. 2014. Archived from the original on 2021-07-28. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  5. Tacitus, Annales , xiii.34.
  6. Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis , 6.38.4.
Political offices
Preceded by Consul of the Roman Empire
53
with Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus
Succeeded by