Marcus Aquilius Regulus
Marcus Aquilius Regulus was a
According to Tacitus, his father was exiled under Nero and his wealth divided amongst his creditors, but does not name him.[3] Paul von Rohden suggests his father might be identified with Lucius Aquillius L.f. Regulus, the pontifex and quaestor of Tiberius mentioned in CIL VI, 2122.[4] Tacitus also identifies Lucius Vipstanus Messalla as his half-brother,[5] and it is generally assumed they shared the same mother; she has not been identified.
Life
His period of greatest notoriety was during the reign of Nero, when Regulus prosecuted
Following the conclusion of the
According to Pliny, Regulus was in fear of his life following the assassination of Domitian. In one of his letters, Pliny describes how the man was intent on achieving a rapprochement with Pliny before Junius Mauricus could return from exile and possibly extract some revenge on Regulus for his relegation.[7] Pliny was clearly hostile towards Regulus, for in another letter he recounts how Regulus indulged in legacy hunting,[8] and presents an unsympathetic portrait of Regulus' mourning over the early death of his only son.[9]
Rutledge dates Regulus' death as "sometime before 106."[10]
References
- ^ Rutledge, Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and informants from Tiberius to Domitian (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 192
- ^ Rutledge, Imperial Inquisitions, p. 197
- ^ a b Tacitus, Histories, IV.42
- ^ von Rohden, "Aquilius 34", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, volume II.1 (1895), col. 331
- ^ Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus, 15.1
- ^ Pliny, Epistulae, I.5
- ^ a b Rutledge, Imperial Inquisitions, p. 194
- ^ Pliny, Epistulae, II.20
- ^ Pliny, Epistulae, IV.2
- ^ Rutledge, Imperial Inquisitions, p. 198