Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco

Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco (flourished 190s) was a politician of the Roman Empire, a consul and Roman Senator.

Falco was the son of Quintus Pompeius Senecio Sosius Priscus. He married Sulpicia Agrippina, the sister of Sulpicius Justus and Pollio Sulpicius, a Senatorial family whose origins lay in Lycia.^[1]

Falco was consul ordinarius in 193 with Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus, both of whom Emperor Commodus planned to murder in order to usurp their offices, intending a procession as sole consul and primus palus secutorum from the barracks of the gladiators. Knowledge of this plan, according to Dio Cassius, led to Commodus' assassination.^[2] Afterwards Sosius Falco was offered the Imperial throne by the Praetorian Guard, which he declined; however, he is known to have attempted a coup against Pertinax. Despite this, Pertinax spared his life.^[3]

References

^ Shelagh Jameson, "Two Lycian Families", Anatolian Studies, 16 (1966), p. 127
^ Dio, 72.22.1-2
^ Jameson, "Two Lycian Families", p. 128

Political offices
Preceded by Imp. Caesar L. Aelius Aurelius Commodus Augustus VII, and Publius Helvius Pertinax II	Consul of the Roman Empire 193 with Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus	Succeeded by Quintus Tineius Sacerdos, and Publius Julius Scapula Priscus as suffect consuls

[1] Shelagh Jameson, "Two Lycian Families", Anatolian Studies, 16 (1966), p. 127

[2] Dio, 72.22.1-2

[3] Jameson, "Two Lycian Families", p. 128

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