Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus
Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus was a
senator active during the first half of the second century AD. He was suffect consul around the year 145, then ordinary consul in 168 with Lucius Sergius Paullus as his colleague.[1]
Priscus is known only from non-literary sources.
Priscus has his origins in Pisa; not only were both the fragmentary inscriptions (one lost) used to define his career found in that city,[2] a lead pipe stamped with his name proves he owned property in the town.[3][4] His father was Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus.[5]
The Venuleii family owned the magnificent villa-estate at Massaciuccoli.
Career
Professor
legatus legionis or commander of Legio I Italica
(dated to c. 143–144), is unusual for a patrician by the mid-second century. His suffect consulate followed his tenure as commander of the legion.
Between his first consulate and his second, Priscus was governor of the imperial province of
sodales Antoniani Veriani
, two priesthoods of lesser prestige, probably began years before this.
References
- ^ a b Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 150
- ^ CIL XI, 1432, CIL XI, 1433
- ^ Raepsaet-Charlier, Marie-Thérèse. “L’inscription ‘CIL’ XI 1735 Complétée et Les ‘Venulei.’” Latomus 42, no. 1 (1983): 152–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41533804.
- ^ CIL XI, 1433a
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 323
- ^ This list of public and sacred offices are taken from Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 327
- ^ Anthony Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 4f