Titus Atilius Rufus

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Titus Atilius Rufus
suffect consul

Titus Atilius Rufus (died AD 85) was a

senator, who held several appointments during the reigns of Nero, Vespasian and Domitian. He was suffect consul in some nundinium prior to the year 80.[1]
He is known primarily from inscriptions.

Rufus is known to have been governor of three provinces. The first province he is known to have administered was a public one,

Syria, where Eck dates his governorship from 82 to 85.[5] According to Tacitus, Rufus died while governor of Syria; Tacitus' father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola was mentioned as a possible successor to Atilius Rufus, but Domitian never offered it to Agricola.[6]

Titus Atilius Rufus Titianus, the consul of 127, may be his son.[7]

See also

References

  1. Classical Quarterly
    , 31 (1981), pp. 206, 220
  2. ^ Eck, "Über die prätorischen Prokonsulate in der Kaiserzeit. Eine quellenkritische Überlegung", Zephyrus, 23-24 (1972/1973), pp. 246f
  3. ^ CIL XVI, 26
  4. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 302-305
  5. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 305-309
  6. ^ Agricola, 40
  7. ^ Paul von Rhoden, "Atilius 55", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Vol. II,2 (1896), col. 2094
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