Titus Prifernius Paetus Rosianus Geminus

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Titus Prifernius Paetus Rosianus Geminus was a Roman senator of the second century who held a series of posts in the emperor's service. He was suffect consul for the nundinium of May–June AD 146 as the colleague of Publius Mummius Sisenna Rutilianus. [1]

Life

Paetus was born in Trebula Mutusca to a senatorial family with many connections. His father, Titus Prifernius Paetus Rosianus Geminus, was suffect consul in 123, [2] and his grandfather, Titus Prifernius Paetus, was suffect consul in 96. His family was prestigious not only on the wider level but also on the local; Paetus is recorded holding all of the municipal posts of his home city. [3]

The first recorded office Paetus held was as one of the decemviri stlitibus judicandus , one of the four magistracies that comprised the vigintiviri . Then in the late 20s of the second century he served as military tribune in the Legio X Fretensis, stationed in Judea. Upon returning to Rome, he held the traditional Roman magistracies -- quaestor, plebeian tribune and praetor—all with the recommendation of the emperor Hadrian. Edward Dabrowa attributes this favor to the intercession of either his father or the well-known lawyer and friend of the Emperor, his brother-in-law Publius Pactumeius Clemens. [3] According to Ronald Syme, Clemens was quaestor to Paetus' father, when he was proconsular governor of Africa. [4]

After serving as praetor, Paetus went on to be legatus legionis or commander of a legion whose name has not been preserved (the two most likely units are Legio XIV Gemina or Legio IV Scythica), then governor of Gallia Aquitania; Géza Alföldy offers the dates for this office as from around 142 to 145. [5] Dabrowa notes, "This post was of great significance because at that time it promised a swift promotion to consulship." [6] He became suffect consul a year after his return to Rome.

After the consulship, Paetus was admitted to the collegium of augurs. He also held a series of consular offices: curator alvei Tiberis et cloacarum Urbis, praefectus alimentorum; [6] then two governorships, that of Dalmatia from 153 to 156, [7] and the pinnacle of senatorial success, proconsular governor of Africa in 160/161. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen, (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 151.
  2. ↑ Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl, "Neue Diplome mit den Namen von Konsuln und Statthaltern," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 187 (2013), pp. 286-290
  3. 1 2 Edward Dabrowa, Legio X Fretensis: A Prosopographical Study of its Officers (I-III c. A.D.) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1993), p. 56
  4. ↑ Syme, "Pliny's Less Successful Friends", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte , 9 (1960), p. 371
  5. ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 252
  6. 1 2 Dabrowa, Legio X Fretensis, p. 57
  7. ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 225
  8. ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 209
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Preceded by Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
146
with Publius Mummius Sisenna Rutilianus 		Succeeded by
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