Quintus Cornelius Proculus
Quintus Cornelius Proculus was a
Name and family
Proculus' full name, Lucius Stertinius Quintillianus Acilius Strabo Quintus Cornelius Rusticus Apronius Senecio Proculus, is attested in an inscription set up by his daughters Cornelia Procula and Cornelia Placida.
A second inscription the sisters Procula and Placida erected attests to a brother, Quintus Cornelius Senecio Proculus.[4]
There are two further possible relatives of Proculus. One is
Life
Géza Alföldy believes Proculus was a native of Hispania Baetica.[7] The only detail of his cursus honorum known to us, besides his consulate, is his proconsular governorship of Asia, which has been dated to the term 161/162.[8] His daughters' monument describes Proculus' son Senecio Proculus as praetoricus legatus provinciae Asiae, or legatus to his father during his governorship of Asia.
A Greek inscription from Laodicea on the Lycus that mentions a "Cornelius Proculus" may refer to him.[9] He may also be the Cornelius Proculus mentioned in Justinian's Digest (26,5,24; 48,18,1,4).
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. 75
- ^ CIL VI, 1387
- ^ Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), pp. 38f, 40
- ^ CIL VI, 1388
- ^ Eck and Weiß, "Tusidius Campester, cos. suff. unter Antoninus Pius, und die Fasti Ostienses der Jahre141/142 n. Chr.", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 134 (2001), pp. 251-260
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 322
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 313
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 216
- ^ AE 1973, 527