Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus (consul 144)
Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus (fl. 2nd century) was a
senator and military officer. He was consul in the year 144 as the colleague of Titus Statilius Maximus.[1]
Biography
Rufus Lollianus was a member of the gens Hedia Lolliana, which probably originated from the region of
suffect consul in AD 114.[2] A noted orator, he was elected to the office of consul in AD 144 alongside Titus Statilius Maximus. This was followed by his appointment as curator operum publicorum (or curator of public works) in 146.[3]
Probably around AD 157/8 Rufus Lollianus was appointed the
Lucius Aurelius Verus left for the Parthian campaign
.
Rufus Lollianus was a patronus of Helvius Successus, the father of the future emperor Pertinax. He was also an amicus of Marcus Cornelius Fronto. Rufus Lollianus married a daughter of Decimus Terentius Gentianus, suffect consul of AD 116, and they had at least two children: Quintus Hedius Rufus Lollianus Gentianus, suffect consul around AD 186–188; and Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus, suffect consul before AD 193.
Sources
- Mennen, Inge, Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 (2011)
References
- ^ Werner Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regierungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013), p. 74
- ^ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 323
- ^ CIL VI, 1008
- ^ IRT 533, IRT 534
- ^ Lucian, Alexander vel Pseudomantis, 57