Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio

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Inscription from Leondedicated to Pollio.

Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio (died before 180) was a

senator, who held several imperial appointments during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. He was suffect consul in an undetermined nundinium around 151;[1] he was a consul ordinarius in the year 176 with Marcus Flavius Aper as his colleague.[2]

Life

Vitrasius Pollio was born into a family of

Egypt under Claudius
(41-54) and whose father of the same name was also procurator of Egypt during the reign of Tiberius.

Two inscriptions, one from Rome,

plebeian tribune, and was excused from serving as an aedile, so his next office was the traditional Republican magistracy of praetor. At this point, he acceded to the suffect consulship almost automatically after reaching his thirty-second or thirty-third birthday. By this point in his life Pollio had been admitted to the sodales Antoniniani
.

Upon stepping down from the consulate, Vitrasius Pollio received a series of imperial appointments. First was

dona militaria
. He returned from the wars to open the year 176 at Rome with his second consulate.

Due to his outstanding military service, Vitrasius Pollio was awarded two statues in his honor. One statue of him depicts him in military clothing and was erected at Trajan's Forum. The second statue portrays him in civilian clothing and was erected at the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. Vitrasius Pollio was deputy to Lucius Verus’ co-Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the Marcomannic Wars.

Family

Pollio married a noblewoman called Annia Fundania Faustina, a member of the ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty, whose paternal cousins were Marcus Aurelius and the Empress Faustina the Younger.[10] Fundania Faustina bore him two children: Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio, whom Commodus had executed in 182 because of his involvement in a conspiracy against the Emperor, and a daughter, Vitrasia Faustina.

References

  1. ^ 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. 82
  2. ^ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 190
  3. ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 325
  4. ^ CIL VI, 1540
  5. ^ CIL II, 5679
  6. ^ Anthony Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 4f
  7. ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 231
  8. ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 229
  9. ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 216
  10. ^ Anthony Birley, Septimius Severus: the African emperor, revised edition (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 236, 245

Further reading

  • Albino Garzetti, From Tiberius to the Antonines: a history of the Roman Empire AD 14-192, 1974
  • Eric R. Varner, Mutilation and transformation: damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture, 2004
Political offices
Preceded by
Consul of the Roman Empire
176
with Marcus Flavius Aper
II 		Succeeded by
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