Quintus Vibius Secundus

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Quintus Vibius Secundus was a Roman Senator who was active during the reigns of Domitian and Trajan. He was suffect consul for the nundinium of March to April 86. [1]

A member of the gens Vibia , Secundus is considered to be the son of the influential Politician Lucius Junius Quintus Vibius Crispus. [2] There is a possibility that Secundus could be related to suffect consul Lucius Vibius Sabinus, father of the Empress Vibia Sabina. [3]

Only one office is known for Secundus: in 101/102 the sortition selected him as proconsular governor of Asia. [4]

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References

  1. Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly , 31 (1981), pp. 190, 216
  2. Olli Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fenica, 1992), p. 91
  3. Anthony Birley, Marcus Aurelius: a biography, Second Edition (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 241, 242 ISBN   0-415-17125-3, ISBN   978-0-415-17125-0
  4. Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron , 12 (1982), pp. 336f

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Political offices
Preceded by Consul of the Roman Empire
86
with Gaius Secius Campanus
or Sextus Octavius Fronto
Succeeded by