Gaius Curtius Justus

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Gaius Curtius Justus was a

Gargilius Martialis (2.1.4,7).[2]

Life

Based on his membership in the Pollia

vigintiviri; membership in the vigintiviri was a preliminary and required first step toward a gaining entry into the Roman Senate. Next Justus was elected quaestor, which he served this at Rome, and upon completion of this traditional Republican magistracy he would be enrolled in the Senate. After this Hadrian adlected him inter tribunicos. Justus completed this portion of his Senatorial career as peregrine praetor
.

Justus served what

Dacia.[5] In a footnote, Birley cites Werner Eck as observing that none of the ten known praefectura frumenti dandi of the period AD 70-138 continued to a consular office.[6]

Dates for the last three offices can be inferred. Working backwards, since he was governor of Dacia prior to being suffect consul, and his tenure probably lasted three years, we can surmise he was governor c. 147-c. 150; this was preceded by a year as proconsul. His time with Legio XX Valeria Victrix, Birley concludes, "may thus have coincided with the campaigns of Quintus Lollius Urbicus, but, at all events, may be assigned to the early or mid-140s."[2] Working forwards, since his adlection was an act of Hadrian, his praetorship was, at the latest, not very long after 138, the year of Hadrian's death. Géza Alföldy dates this magistracy around the year 135.[7] An inscription found in Milan also attests that Justus was a member of the sodales Augustales, a prominent Roman priesthood.[8]

Justus is known to have held one consular post, governor of

military diploma that can be dated to either 158 or 159.[9]

Family

Although the name of his wife is not known, her existence can be inferred from the presence of Gaius Curtius Pollia Rufinus, tribunus laticlavius of Legio XIII Gemina, which was stationed in Dacia during Justus' governorship.[2]

References

  1. ^ Roger S. O. Tomlin, John Pearce, "A Roman Military Diploma for the German Fleet (19 November 150) Found in Northern Britain", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 206 (2018), pp. 214–216
  2. ^ a b c d Anthony R. Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 253
  3. ^ CIL III, 1458
  4. Achaea
    . (Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen, (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), pp. 156, 262)
  5. ^ Birley, The Fasti, p. 252
  6. ^ Birley, The Fasti, p. 252 n. 5
  7. ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 343
  8. ^ CIL V, 5809
  9. ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 234
Political offices
Preceded byas suffect consuls
Roman consul
AD 150 (suffect)
with Gaius Julius Julianus
 Succeeded byas ordinary consuls
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