Quintus Cornelius Senecio Annianus
Quintus Cornelius Senecio Annianus was a
senator, who was active during the reign of Antoninus Pius and held several imperial appointments. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of September-October 142 as the colleague of Lucius Tusidius Campester.[1]
He is known only from inscriptions.
Annianus had long been suspected to be a relative of
military diploma that fixed Annianus' consular tenure, he is now thought to be Proculus' brother.[1]
Life
Annianus' existence is attested by a single inscription from
plebeian tribune and praetor
.
After stepping down from the office of praetor, Annianus was appointed to four more positions; with
Via Appia. Before he acceded to the consulate, the sortition allocated to him the public province of Bithynia and Pontus; there are many gaps in our knowledge of the governors of this province, so the only safe statement that can be made about the date of his tenure is that Annianus governed Bithynia and Pontus before it became an imperial province in 134.[4]
The inscription from Carteia attests that Annianus was a member of the priesthood of Hercules at some unknown date; he possibly held this office while still at Carteia.
References
- ^ a b Werner Eck and Peter 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
- ^ CIL II, 1929
- ^ Rémy, Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.) (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), p. 49
- ^ Richard Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton: University Press, 1984), p. 395