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Tiberius Claudius Secundinus Lucius Statius Macedo was a Roman eques who held a number of appointments in the second century AD, the best known of which was praefectus annonae , or overseer of the food supply of Rome. Macedo is known only from a series of inscriptions.

His public career is recorded in two inscriptions from Aquileia, which is considered his home town. [1] His first set of appointments were military, typical of the tres militiae . His earliest recorded post was primipilus of Legio IV Flavia Felix , then stationed in Moesia Superior . Macedo returned to Rome where he held a series of commissions: first military tribune of cohort I of the vigiles ; then tribune of cohort XI of the Cohortes urbanae ; followed by tribune of cohort VIIII of the Praetorian Guard; and then primipilus a second time. Macedo was then commissioned praefectus or commander of Legio II Traiana Fortis, stationed in Roman Egypt. Because Egypt was governed by an eques, and a commander of a legion would need to be of a lower rank than the governor, this prevented senators from being commissioned commanders of any legion in that province. [2]

Once he stepped down from command of Legio II Trajana, Macedo was appointed to a series of administrative posts. The first one was procurator of the vicesima hereditatium . This was followed with procurator of the imperial estates in Gallia Lugdunensis and Gallia Aquitania. Macedo then returned to Rome to serve as a rationibus ; Henriette Pavis D'Escurac believes he immediately succeeded Gaius Julius Celsus in this post, and dates it at some point after 144. [3] Following this, Macedo was promoted to praefectus annonae; according to D'Escurac he succeeded Marcus Petronius Honoratus who was promoted to praefectus of Egypt in 147. [3]

After his tenure as praefectus annonae ended, his life is a blank.

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References

  1. CIL V, 867 = ILS 1339; AE 1934, 232
  2. H.M.D. Parker, The Roman Legions, 1957 (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), p. 193
  3. 1 2 D'Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin, (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1976), p. 345