Triarius Maternus
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Triarius Maternus, otherwise known as Triarius Maternus Lascivius[1] was a Roman Senator who was consul ordinarius in 185 CE with Atticus Bradua as his colleague.
Life
Triarius Maternus was a member of a noble family whose members achieved the consulate throughout the
Triarius Maternus was eventually caught up in the aftermath of the assassination of the emperor Commodus and the accession of Pertinax. According to the Historia Augusta, the Praetorian Guard, unhappy with the elevation of Pertinax, tried to bring Triarius to their camp on January 3, 193, and proclaim him emperor in place of Pertinax. Triarius managed to get away from them, although losing his clothes in the process, and fled to Pertinax. Pertinax then allowed him to leave the city unharmed.[4] It has been hypothesised that Triarius's bid for the imperial throne was engineered by his nephew, the consul in 193, Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus, who was possibly involved in the conspiracy to murder Commodus.[5]
Triarius was married to a Procula (most likely Egnatia Procula), and his son was almost certainly Aulus Triarius Rufinus, the consul ordinarius in 210 CE.[6]
References
Sources
- Champlin, Edward, Notes on the Heirs of Commodus, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 100, No. 2 (Summer, 1979), pp. 288-306 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/293693)