Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus
Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus was a
senator who flourished during the Flavian dynasty; Brian W. Jones considers him one of Domitian's amici or advisors.[1] He held the consulate
twice.
Name and family
Older authorities refer to him as Lucius Appius Maximus Norbanus, combining
military diploma from Suhozem in Bulgaria,[4] some authorities persisted in giving the wrong name.[5]
The
gentilicium "'Lappius' is very rare."[7]
An inscription at Rome provides the name of his wife, Aelia.[8] Salomies writes that Lappia A.f. Tertulla, mentioned in a Roman inscription (CIL VI, 31106) "is probably this man's daughter".[6] In any case, Syme notes Lappius Maximus was one of several notables living during the Flavian dynasty who "were unable to supply consular descendants."[9]
Career
The career of Lappius Maximus included being
Syria from 89 to 92,[13] before holding the fasces a second time for the nundinium May to August 95 with Publius Ducenius Verus as his colleague;[14] occupying the office of consul was a distinction Syme notes "that had become preternaturally rare in the course of the previous century."[15]
References
- ^ Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 59
- ^ Pliny, Epistulae, X.58.6
- ^ Epitome de Caesaribus, xi.10
- ^ AE 1961, 319
- ^ As an example, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edition (1970), "Norbanus (2)", and "Saturninus (3)"
- ^ a b Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 95
- ^ Syme, Tacitus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), p. 647
- ^ CIL VI, 1347 = ILS 1006
- ^ Syme, Tacitus, p. 228 n. 3
- ^ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 307f
- Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 190, 216
- ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", p. 314
- ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 316-319
- ^ Gallivan, "The Fasti", pp. 192, 218
- ^ Syme, Tacitus, p. 51