Pompeius Paullinus

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Pompeius Paullinus

Arelate.[3] He may have been the brother of Pompeia Paulina who was the wife of the philosopher and statesman Seneca.[4]

Paullinus is best known for his tenure as governor of Germania Inferior, which has been attested by a mention in Tacitus,[5] Pliny the Elder,[3] and an inscription recovered from Cologne which has been dated to the year 56.[6] The evidence points to his tenure as extending from 55 to 57; he was succeeded by Lucius Duvius Avitus in the year 58. Ronald Syme surmises that while Paullinus was governor of Germania Inferior, Pliny and the future emperor Titus both served as military tribunes.[7] From his time in that province Pliny later recalled that Paullinus brought with him 12,000 pounds of silver plate to a posting where he was "confronted by tribes of the greatest ferocity."[3]

After Paullinus returned from Germania, he is next attested in an inscription from

Year of Four Emperors
.

References

  1. ^ Also spelled Pompeius Paulinus
  2. Classical Quarterly
    , 24 (1974), p. 301
  3. ^
    Naturalis Historia
    , XXXIII.143
  4. ^ Anthony A. Barrett, Elaine Fantham, John C. Yardley (2016) The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources, page 143. Princeton University Press
  5. Annales
    XIII.54
  6. ^ AE 1969/70, 443
  7. ^ Syme, "Pliny the Procurator", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 73 (1969), pp. 206f
  8. ^ Werner Eck, "Miscellanea prosopographica", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 42 (1981), pp. 229f
  9. Annales
    XV.18
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