Aulus Platorius Nepos
Aulus Platorius Nepos was a
senator who held a number of appointments in the imperial service, including the governorship of Britain. He was suffect consul succeeding the consul posterior Publius Dasumius Rusticus as the colleague of the emperor Hadrian for March to April 119 AD.[1]
vigintivirate, the tresviri capitales, later receiving an emperor's backing in his candidature for a higher post.... Secondly, this is only one of three known instances (the others being those of L. Flavius Silva (ord. 81) and C. Bruttius Praesens (II ord. 139) of such men proceeding to the consulship after a single senior praetorian appointment."[2]
Life
It is unclear where he was born and raised, but because he was explicitly described as a friend of the emperor
governor of Germania Inferior, and while governor received Hadrian during his tour in 121. He accompanied Hadrian to Britain in 122, when he was made governor of that province, and oversaw the construction of Hadrian's Wall. He probably brought Legio VI Victrix with him from the continent to assist in the construction and perhaps to replace Legio IX Hispana which had left around 108.[5] His tenure as governor of Roman Britain is securely dated by two military diplomas, one dated to 17 July 122, and the other to 15 September 124.[3]
Nepos sought no further office after his time in Britain. Bricks bearing his name, and dated to 134, show he owned a brickworks near Rome. At some point Nepos held the augurate.[6] The Historia Augusta twice records how Hadrian came to dislike his old friend, which Birley attempts to explain, for the Historia is considered an unreliable source.[7] Birley suggests that A. Platorius Nepos Calpurnianus, curator of the Tiber in 161, was his son.[8]
References
- ^ Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl, "Neue Diplome mit den Namen von Konsuln und Statthaltern," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 187 (2013), p. 282
- ^ a b Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981) p. 102
- ^ a b Birley, Fasti, p. 101
- ^ Birley, Fasti, p. 103
- ^ Birley, Fasti, pp. 103f
- ^ Birley, Fasti, p. 104
- ^ Birley, Fasti, pp. 104f
- ^ Birley, Fasti, p. 105