Lucius Luscius Ocrea

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Lucius Luscius Ocrea was Roman senator of the first century. He was suffect consul in either the years 77 or 78. [1] Ocrea is primarily known from inscriptions.

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.

Ocrea was adlected inter patricios by the emperors Vespasian and his son Titus in 73 or 74, doubtlessly as a reward for his support during the Year of the Four Emperors. [2] Although becoming a member of the patrician order would allow the person to skip over a number of steps to accede to the consulship, he is known to have been governor of the public province of Lycia et Pamphylia for an extended term for the years 74/75 through 75/76. [3] After his term as consul, Ocrea was proconsular governor of Asia, considered the acme of a successful senatorial career, in the years 90/91. [4] His life afterwards is not known.

During the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and later, adlecti, or allecti were those who were chosen to fill up a vacancy in any office or collegium, and especially those who were chosen to fill up the proper number of the senate. As these would be generally equites, Festus defines the adlecti to be equites added to the senate: and he appears in this passage to make a distinction between the adlecti and the conscripti. This distinction is supported by the summons form used to call the senate which reads pares and conscripti beginning in 509 BC. Others argue that they were the same; for in another passage, Festus gives the same definition of the conscripti as he had done of the adlecti, and Livy (ii.1) says conscriptos in novum senatum appellabant lectos.

Vespasian Ninth Emperor of Ancient Rome, founder of the Flavian dynasty

Vespasian was Roman emperor from 69–79, the fourth, and last, in the Year of the Four Emperors. He founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years.

Titus Emperor of Ancient Rome

Titus was Roman emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman emperor to come to the throne after his own biological father.

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References

  1. Gallivan, Paul (1981). "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96". Classical Quarterly . 31 (1): 202, 219. JSTOR   638472 .
  2. Werner Eck, Senatoren von Vespasian bis Hadrian: Prosopographische Untersuchungen mit Einschluss der Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der Statthalter (Munich: Beck'sche, 1970), p. 108
  3. Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron , 12 (1982), p. 295; in the second half of his article, Eck notes the publication in 1983 of an inscription attesting to Ocrea's governorship at the beginning of 76 ("Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", Chiron, 13 (1983), p. 208)
  4. Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", p. 318