Decimus Veturius Macrinus
Decimus Veturius Macrinus was a Roman eques who is known to have held imperial appointments under both emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. He is best known for being governor of Roman Egypt under Commodus and praetorian prefect under Severus.
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In any case, Macrinus is attested as governor of Egypt from 181 through 183.[3] He then was unemployed by the imperial service until after the death of Commodus. It is in 193 that we hear of him again: according to the Historia Augusta, Macrinus was recruited by Septimus Severus to be his praetorian prefect.[4] The beleaguered emperor Didius Julianus offered to make both Severus his co-emperor and Macrinus his third praetorian prefect, sending one of his prefects, Tullius Crispinus, to Severus with the message; Severus did not trust the intentions of his rival, and had Crispinus put to death. Anthony Birley notes that at this time Macrinus "cannot have been a young man", and had risen thru the ranks as had Severus' other appointment for praetorian prefect, Flavius Juvenalis. It is not clear how long Macrinus held this last position: by the time Severus appointed his old friend Gaius Fulvius Plautianus praetorian prefect (no later than 8 June 197), we hear no more of either Macrinus or Juvenalis.
References
- ^ a b Spaul, "Governors of Tingitana", Antiquités africaines, 30 (1994), p. 246
- ^ AE 1953, 79
- ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), p. 300
- ^ Vita Didi Juliani, 7.5