Lucius Minicius Natalis
Lucius Minicius Natalis was a
senator and military leader who occupied a number of offices in the imperial service. He was suffect consul in 106 with Quintus Licinius Silvanus Granianus Quadronius Proculus as his colleague.[1]
He is known entirely from inscriptions.
Career
An inscription found in Barcelona provides details of his legatus legionis or commander of the Legio III Augusta, effectively making him praetorian governor of Numidia in 103/104.[3]
The inscription from Barcelona attests that following his consulate, Natalis was appointed curator alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacarum, or one of the officials responsible for public works inside the city, regulating the
sodalis Augustalis, Natalis was proconsul of Africa in 121/122.[5] His son, Lucius Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus, served as his legatus, or assistant, during his tenure in Africa.[6]
His life after he concluded his governorship in Africa is a blank.
References
- ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 467
- ^ CIL II, 4509
- ^ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), p. 339
- ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", p. 355
- ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 13 (1983), p. 155 n. 361
- ^ Ronald Syme, "A Dozen Early Priesthoods", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 77 (1989), p. 247