Quintus Haterius Antoninus

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Quintus Haterius Antoninus or known as Antoninus was a

senator, who was active during the reign of Claudius and Nero
.

Life

He was suffect consul in the year AD 53 as the colleague of Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus.[1]

Antoninus was the only child to

Caecilia Attica.[3] Sabina Tariverdieva believes her to be the daughter of Agrippa's sister Vipsania Polla.[4]

By the year 58 Antoninus had squandered his inheritance through extravagances, when emperor Nero gave him a yearly stipend of 500,000

Aurelius Cotta, who had likewise squandered their inheritances, also received yearly stipends from the emperor.[5] According to Seneca the Younger, Haterius Antoninus was considered by some as a professional legacy hunter.[6]

References

  1. Classical Quarterly
    , 28 (1978), pp. 409, 425.
  2. ^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 162.
  3. ^ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 145.
  4. Vestnik Drevnei Istorii
    . 1 (288): 88–101. 2014.
  5. Annales
    , xiii.34.
  6. ^ Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, 6.38.4.
Political offices
Preceded by
Lucius Salvidienus Rufus Salvianus
Succeeded by
Quintus Caecina Primus