Livineius Regulus
Livineius Regulussenator, active during the reign of Tiberius. He was suffect consul for February through July of the year 18, succeeding Germanicus as the colleague of Lucius Seius Tubero.[2]
Background
With family origins in Campania, Regulus is described by
tresviri monetalis no later than 9 BC, and adds, "Therefore about fifty when consul."[4]
Regulus appears once in the surviving pages of
Lucius Calpurnius Piso.[5] Despite their efforts, and the support of the emperor Tiberius, the case went against Piso and he committed suicide before the Senate could hold a vote on the verdict.[6]
Tactius mentions another Livineius Regulus, whose expulsion from the Senate he had recounted in one of the lost sections of his Annales. This Livineius Regulus had staged a
Nuceria. Emperor Nero referred the matter to the Senate, who first tried to hand it off to the consuls, but in the end punished Pompeii with a 10-year ban on similar public gatherings, and having all of their guild associations dissolved. Further, this Regulus was punished with exile, apparently from Italy.[7]
While it is doubtful that they are the same person, how Livineius Regulus the consul is related to Livineius Regulus the ex-Senator is uncertain.
References
- Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 30 (1981), p. 189
- ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
- ^ Syme, "Early Tiberian Consuls", p. 191
- ^ Syme, "The Marriage of Rubellius Blandus", American Journal of Philology, 103 (1982), p. 70
- Annales, III.11
- ^ Annales, III.15
- ^ Annales, XIV.17