Camerinus Antistius Vetus

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Camerinus Antistius Vetus was a

Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus is recorded as consul for the rest of the nundinium.[1] Camerinus is also known to have been urban praetor in the year 43.[2]
He is known entirely from inscriptions.

Because Camerinus reached the consulate within three years of becoming praetor, one can deduce he was one of the

Gaius Antistius Vetus, ordinary consul in 50; and Lucius Antistius Vetus, ordinary consul in 55.[5]

Enigmas

Camerinus presents a number of problems in the little we know about him. First there is his

Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus (suffect consul 31), and his son Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix
, consul in 52.

But more problematic is the brevity of his tenure. Documents exist attesting him as consul for 15 and 23 March 46. However, the Fasti Teanenses, which reveals many details about the consuls of this period, omit all mention of Camerinus; it credits Sulpicius Camerinus with holding the office from the beginning of March through the end of June. A number of explanations have been proposed to explain Camerinus Antistius omission, but Nikolaus Pachowiak points out they are all unsatisfactory.[6]

Pachowiak proposes that the two are the same man; he proposes that the consul's full name was Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Antistius Vetus. Pachowiak remarks that it should not be a surprise that the literary tradition only knows him by his first three names, pointing to Galba and noting that Suetonius is the only literary source from which we learn the emperor had adopted the names Lucius Livius Ocella.[7] While it would be the simplest solution -- this provides a pre-consular career for Sulpicius Camerinus, and a post-consular career for Antistius Vetus -- and there is no evidence against it, more evidence is needed before Pachowiak's identification is accepted as fact.

References

  1. ^ Giuseppe Camedoca, "I consoli del 43 e gli Antistii Veteres d'età claudia dalla riedizione delle TabulaeHerculanenses" Archived 2020-01-26 at the Wayback Machine, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 140 (2002), p. 235
  2. ^ AE 2006, 307
  3. ^ Anthony Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 15f
  4. ^ Birley, Fasti, p. 15
  5. ^ Camedoca, "I consoli del 43", pp. 234-236
  6. ^ Pachowiak, "Gaius/Appius Iunius Silanus und Camerinus Antistius Vetus" Archived 2020-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 190 (2014), pp. 247-250
  7. ^ Pachowiak, "Camerinus Antistius Vetus", p. 250
Political offices
Preceded byas Ordinary consul
Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
46
with Marcus Junius Silanus
 Succeeded by
Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus
as Suffect consul
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