Lucius Aurelius Gallus (suffect consul)

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Lucius Aurelius Gallus was a

military diploma found in Morocco attests that he was suffect consul on 18 August for one of the years between 129 and 132 as the colleague of ...cus Priscus.[1]
Gallus is known entirely from inscriptions.

Life

The origins of Aurelius Gallus are enigmatic. Hans-Georg Pflaum speculates his grandfather may have been one of the signatories to a promulgation of Lucius Helvius Agrippa, proconsul of Sardinia, dated 18 March 69.[2]

An inscription from the base of a statue, erected by one Marcus Aemilius Alcima at Rome, who describes himself as Gallus' amicus but is otherwise unknown, provides us the details of his

plebeian tribune and praetor
.

Upon completing his term as praetor, Gallus was selected as

aerarium Saturni, or the public treasury, where he was the colleague of Marcus Acilius Priscus Egrilius Plarianus. At this point, historian Mireille Corbier comments, "The prefecture of the aerarium Saturni is the culmination of a long line of Praetorian posts that led our senator to the four corners of the empire, and the consulate is the normal conclusion of a well-conducted, but uninspired (mais sans éclat) career".[7]

His consulate followed soon after this last appointment; Corbier suggests Gallus was in his 50s when he acceded to this post.[7] Details of Gallus' life after the consulate have not been identified.

Family

As Gallus was a

Lucius Aurelius Gallus, consul in 146.[8]

References

  1. ^ CIL XVI, 173
  2. ^ CIL X, 7852; Pflaum, "Deux familles sénatoriales des IIe et IIIe siècles", Journal des savants (1962), p. 114
  3. ^ CIL VI, 1356
  4. ^ Pflaum, "Deux familles sénatoriales", p. 108
  5. ^ Pflaum, "Deux familles sénatoriales", p. 113
  6. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 13 (1983), pp. 160f
  7. ^ a b Corbier, L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare. Administration et prosopographie sénatoriale (Rome: École Française de Rome, 1974), p. 184
  8. ^ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 323; Pflaum, "Deux familles sénatoriales", p. 114
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