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Durham E-Theses Durham E-Theses A study of the municipal aristocracies of the roman empire in the west, with special reference to north Africa Jarrett, Michael Grierson How to cite: Jarrett, Michael Grierson (1958) A study of the municipal aristocracies of the roman empire in the west, with special reference to north Africa, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1980/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 lw-, VOLUI% TWO. PROSOPOGRAPHY. It. Wl= Thibursicum Bure. lei - Q*. = 1439 = 15255'=, IIS ý14-3-0: Q(uinto) Acilio'C(ai) f (ilio)* Papir(ia) I-Nisco., v(iro) e( 122'0gi 0)) -juratori) annonae Auggg(ustorum) nnn(ostror=) OStiensium, procýýtori5roperis theatr-I Pompeiani, fisci advocato codicillari stationis hereditatium et cohaerentium, cur(atori) Laurentium vico Augustanorum., sacerdoti Laurentium Lavinatium, resp(ublica) municipi Severiani Antonin-Inni lib(eri) Thib(ursicensium)Bure civi et patrono. (Ostia): Acilio XIV 154 ='118 1431 -Q(uinto) C(ai) fil jo)'rap(jr-la) Fusco, v(iro), eýgregioý, procurat(ori) annon(ae) Augýustorum) nn(ostrorum), pkatrono) c(oloniae) Ost(iensis), proc(umtori) operis theatr(i) Fompeian(i),, fisci advocat(o) codicill(ari) stationis herecli-tat(ium). et cohaerent(ium), sacerd(oti) Laurent(ium) Lavinat(ium) corpus mesorum,. frument(ax-lorum) adiutorum et acceptorum Ost(iensium) ergm se benignissimo. cf PIR2 A 58; CP 291. Severan. Acilius Fuscas entered the procuratorial service by way of the post of fiscus,. than., through the advocatus rather equestrian militiae. -He was a native of Thibursicum. Bure,, andthe. appointment: as advocatus fisci, by codicil may. imply imperial, a, fe3. low,, African.,, Both procuratorships are lfavaulr_to., sexagenarian appointments in Rome, so that Fuscus seems to have been destined for a 'civilian' career - as we might expect from the initial appointment; but the fact that he held two sexagenarian appointments suggests that he was not expected to have a distinguished, career. 2 M. AEDINIUS -IULIMS. i. 3M 338 = IIS 6121 (part only in IIS; Canusium). ii. XIII 3162. 'Kii. Tap. Flor. 111,382 is 57-"iV. Pap- OXY- 1-'35. of Stein in PIR2 A 3.13 (inadequýt Aorigpny; Stein,, EZZ2 t. 127-8; Barbieri _pp. CP 297'.; ý peýý4s the best clisoussie o Howe 38; 923; (von Third PE': r'464 - 465 Rohclen; unsatis otory)., century. --,. --., Iulianus, was, clarissimus vir, in 223, when he is recorded as patron of Canusium. The most important source is inscription ii, set UP at Thorigny in honour of, T. Sennius Sollemnis, chairman of the provincial_, council. of-the 115. Three Gauls immediately after the governorship of Ti. Claudius Paulinus who left Lugdunensis for Lower Britain in 220. The inscription records a reference given for Sollemnis by Iulianus. The principal face of the inscription gives us the following information: (i. Aedini lines 20 - 22: 'Fuit e. Sollemnis) cliens probatissimus Iuliani leg(ati) Aug(usti) prov(inciae) Lugd(unensis)., qui postea praefectus praet(orio) fuit'. The letter of Julianus is given on the left side of the stone. The most interesting portion is the beginning: 'Exemplum AedinLi3 Iuliani epistulae , praefecti praet(orio) ad Badium Comni&num pr[plcurýatorem) et vice praesidis agen g(em)]. Aedinius lulianus Badio Comniano sal(utem). In provincia Lugduness(i) quinquefascal(is) cum agerem I lines 14 15 of the same side of the text, Iulianus describes Claudius Ap"ag as I decessor meus Certain points about the career of Aedinius Iulianus are clearly fixed, He is recorded as prefect of Egypt in 222 and 223 (Stein,, Egypt,, p. 127). He was vir clarissimus and patron of Canusium. in 223,, having become praetorian prefect, in July of that year. By 238 he had certainly died or retired from office. He had been in Lugdunensis in 220. The chief problem is to decide whether Iulianus was by origin a senator or an equestrian; whether in governing Lugdunensis he was legatus Augusti or procurator agens vice legati', like Badius, Comnianus., to whom he Wx te about T. Sennius Sollemnis. For the former view, we may ague that Sennius Sollemnis describes him as leatus in the same breath as he mentions the praetorian prefecture; as a contemporax7, would not Sollemnis have realised the apparent improbability of a senator becoming praetorian prefect ? We have moreover the. eviaence of the Album, of Canusium, which describes lulianus as claxisaimus in 223; this may refer either to the prefecture of Egypt or to the praetorian Both prefecture., which Iulianus reached in July of that year. prefectures were equestrian but in the third century praetorian prefects were regularly fec. and prefects of Egypt occasionally made clarissimi. We may however be j6stifiid'iii"aiking whethei this was"'one of the cases inwhich Elagabalus , tramferred sIe.nators to equestrian posts and vice versa - this was'one ,of the causis for complaint against him. Of the view that Iulianus was'an equestrian until he became praetorian i- refects M. E. G. Pflaum is the'chief exponent. His discus ,sion of XIII 3162 (in Thorign does not deal adequately with the problem of whether a procurator d6putising for a legatusAugusti could legitimately be described as gui uefas The suggestion of M. Pflaum is that at no period'was" Iulianus a se na tor, that in Lugdunensis he was rocurator acting in ýejuiar (presumably the absence of a legate upon*the departure of Paulinus). He emphasises the use of the Verb agere, suggesting that it implies a temporary governorship, while a permanent governorship would have necessitated the word esSe; but this is not in fact true. The word agere is regularly used elsewhereto, denote the performance, of a magistracAlor similar office - of Ammianus 26, vi, 8: agere Praefecturam. The, word dgeesso 'suggests, that Paulinus and Mulianus, were of the same' stan&ng 'is governors of Lugdunensis: 'and'Paul inus was indisptitably a senatorial legate. The suggestion that Iulianus was ducenarian procurator Iquitanica, of Lugclunensis" and is supported by the evidence of his career; for two years later he is recorded as prefect of Egypt, and in the year foIjowing as praetorian prefect. This is suggestive of a common promotion pattern to the highest offices; several men after being procurator of either Lugdunensis and Aquitanica, or of Beigica'*'and the Two Germanies became secretary a rationibus at Rome., Praefectus annonae and then prefect of Egypt. , (cf C-. lunius Plaviinus'and V. Petronius Honoratus). ' This seems to me to be Ahe most important aqpment in favour of the view that Iulianus was originally an equestriim, I lbave,, 'however,, grave'doubts as to whether this arguments even'coupled 4ith the suggestion that4i prefect of Egypt Aedinius- lulianus was 'adlectus inter praetorios-is sufficient to counter-balance the, ýevidence suggesting -senator, to by that lie waS a $ perhaps' transferred equestriah'appointments 017. Elagabalus,, who took little account of such matters.. Despite this.,, I have included, in the list of,, procurators because of his appointments as -IuLianus prefect of, Egypt and praetorian prefect. -, -- "1 .1 that Iulianus, African is By. contrast, the evidence was of origin -, relatively simple-and satisfactory. Of the Aedinii recorded in CIL,. three from X. from VI twenty-four from VIII; come volume Ifour volume and, volume.,, Aedinius-Iulianus is recorded in IX and XIII., but clearly neither represents him as being of local origin. The four Aedinii from Rome can be discounted., since Rome.was, too cosmopolitan to have, any significance for a study such as this, We are, therefore-left with eight times as many Aedinii from inference that it. Aedinius Iulianus Africa as from Italy, 0 and-the, was an African. is clear. - ; i- r P. AELMS 'PRIMIANUS Auzia. VIII 9045 IM 2766t P(ublio) Ael(io) P(ublii f(ilio) Q(uirina) Primiano, eq(ues) R(cmano), trib(uno) cohýort is IIII Syng(am)b(rorum), a, mil(itiis) Lýaerim c'p(ilo), trib(uno) coh(ortis) IV vig(jium) ex urione) II Augustae) Thrac(um)p pr(ae)p(osito) vexýillationum) 'deceqqýuitum) Mauror(um)o defensori prov(inciae) suae, dec(urioni) - I3: j colll. (= coloniarum) Auzýiensis) et Rusg(uniensis) et Equiz(etensis), P(ublius) Aelius Primus,, deckurio) col(oniae) Auz(iensis), prius morte praeventus ilam ded(icaret) pat(ri) piissimo, Ael(ia) Audi f(ecit) fil(ia) patZri). d(e)d(icavit) XIII Kal(endos) Mar(tios anno) p(rovinciae) CCXVI. cf, PIR2 A 233; Dobson 15, Third century. that the ', -",- The date of this inscription is 16th Februar7,, 255 . so whole career of Primianus must have fallen in the third century. The Inscription seems', to indicate that he was a native of Auzia. Clearly this career does not fit into any pattern known to us. There are clementis; of an equestrian officer's careers intermlingled with what we , item should expectifrom a centurion, -Then there is the most puzzling of alls the decurionate of an-ala. In, addition there is the command of a, towns in Mauretania Caesariensis, vexillations and the decurionate of three iq as well as-the defence of the province.
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