Titus Aius Sanctus
Titus Aius Sanctus was a Roman eques, who held several important imperial appointments then was later promoted to senatorial rank. Sanctus was consul suffectus around 185.[1]
Paul Leunissen suggests that Sanctus came from the Italian Peninsula, speculating Sanctus was from Campania.[2] Fergus Millar speculates that Sanctus was Commodus' teacher of rhetoric, whom the Historia Augusta calls Ateus or Attius Sanctus.[3]
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At some point after he returned from Egypt, Sanctus was adlected inter praetores by the emperor Commodus into the Senate. He is next attested as praefectus aerari, which was followed by his ascension to the consulate. Aius Sanctus was appointed to procurator alimentorum, which Leunissen dates to around 185/186; it is unclear whether he held this appointment before or after his consulate, although most men Leunissen lists in this appointment held it afterwards.[8]
References
- ^ Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 139
- ^ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 355
- ^ Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (Cornell:University Press, 1992), p. 105
- ^ CIL VI, 41118
- ^ Millar, Emperor in the Roman World, p. 227
- ^ Information on this position is collected by Millar, Emperor in the Roman World, pp. 625-630
- ^ Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), pp. 299f
- ^ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 319
Further reading
- Hans-Georg Pflaum, Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire romain (Paris, 1960), No. 178