Lucius Duvius Avitus
Lucius Duvius Avitus was a
senator, who held several offices in the emperor's service. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of November to December 56 with Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus as his colleague.[1]
Avitus is the only known member of his family known to have held the consulship.
Prior to becoming consul, Avitus is known to have been governor of the imperial province of
Usipii and the Tubantes. These tribes did not provide them shelter for long, and the Ampsivarii were forced to seek shelter from other peoples. Tacitus relates that "after long wanderings, as destitute outcasts, received now as friends[,] now as foes, their entire youth were slain in a strange land, and who could not fight[,] were apportioned as booty."[2]
References
- Classical Quarterly, 24 (1974), p. 291, 309
- Annales, XIII.54-56