Gaius Catellius Celer

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Gaius Catellius Celer (also known as Lucius Pompeius Vopiscus Gaius Catellius Celer) was a

suffect consul for the nundinium September-October 77 with Marcus Arruntius Aquila as his colleague.[1]

Name

The

freedmen of a Lucius Catellius are attested. Syme has narrowed the choice between these: a fragmentary name "Q. Pompeius [...] Cat[...]" attested at Volsinii,[5] points to Volsinii as his home town.[6]

At times Celer also included the

suffect consul of 69.[8]

Career

Details of Celer's life are lacking before 20 May 75, when he first appears in the records of the

Tarraconensis to these years.[11] Prior to serving as juridicus, Celer is known to have served as curator operum publicorum, succeeding Marcus Hirrius Fronto Neratius Pansa.[12]

In AD 91, when he was eligible to participate in the sortition for the proconsulate of either Africa or Asia, he failed to obtain either one.[13]

Family

Some authorities raise the possibility that Pompeia Celerina, the mother of Pliny the Younger's second wife, was Celer's daughter. In his monograph on Imperial Roman nomenclature, Olli Salomies points out that if this were the case, she had to be born after Celer accepted the testamentary adoption from Pompeius Vopiscus -- after 80 -- but "a lady born at the earliest in c. 80 cannot have been the mother of Pliny's second wife."[14]

References

  1. ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 202, 214
  2. ^ CIL IX, 2710
  3. ^ CIL XI, 6126
  4. ^ CIL XI, 2752
  5. ^ CIL XI, 7284
  6. Journal of Roman Studies
    , 58 (1968), p. 144
  7. ^ Syme, Some Arval Brethren, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), pp. 18f
  8. ^ Olli Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 118
  9. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, p. 12
  10. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, p. 26
  11. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, p. 29
  12. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, pp. 30f
  13. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, p. 36
  14. ^ Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature, p. 119
Political offices
Preceded by
Suffect Consul of the Roman Republic
77
with Marcus Arruntius Aquila
 Succeeded byas Suffect consul
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