2nd century Roman senator, consul and governor
Quintus Fuficius Cornutus was a
Cornutus is known only from inscriptions.
Career
His dona militaria, or military decorations. However, where he saw combat, and with which unit, is not known; the part of the inscription containing that information is missing.
Valerie Maxfield lists two possible occasions on which this could have happened: "the
bellum Iudaicum of A.D. 132-5 in which
C. Popilius Carus Pedo, consul the same year as Cornutus, was decorated"; or the
expeditio Britannica during the governorship of
Quintus Lollius Urbicus.
[4] Anthony Birley is rather doubtful that Cornutus participated in the Jewish War, noting that Hadrian "was notably ungenerous with
dona for the Jewish war."
[5]
Enough of the inscription survives to attest that Cornutus was the imperial candidate for the Republican magistracies of
Callaecia. Alföldy notes he was one of three men who held this position in a narrow period: Alföldy arranges the three putting
Lucius Novius Crispinus (later suffect consul around 150) first, who was replaced by
Lucius Coelius Festus, and who was in turn replaced by Cornutus around the year 140; Cornutus is surmised to have remained in this appointment for three years.
[6]Cornutus received a commission as legatus legionis or commander of a
legion whose name is lost, but appears to have been stationed in one of the two
Moesian provinces; Alföldy dates his commission from about 142 to 144,
[6] while
Maxfield offers the dates of about 141 to 143.
[4] This was followed by his governorship of the imperial province of
Pannonia Inferior, which he held from the year 144 to 147.
[7]
The only office Cornutus is known to have held after his consulate was governor of
Moesia Inferior, which he held from c. 151 to c. 153/154.
[8]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
- ^ ILS 8975 (= AE 1897, 19)
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 306
- ^ a b c Maxfield, V. "The Dona Militaria of the Roman Army" (Durham theses, Durham University, 1972), vol. 2 p. 23
- ^ Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 276 n. 3
- ^ a b c Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, pp. 351-353
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 250
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 231
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