Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus
Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Trajan. He was suffect consul in the year 115, replacing the consul Marcus Pedo Vergilianus killed by an earthquake in Antioch.[1]
Hadrianus was descended from a wealthy Syrian family; Géza Alföldy has identified two of his relatives active in that province, one the patron of Heliopolis (modern Baalbek), the other a prominent citizen of Beirut.[2] He is known to have had at least one son, Titus Statilius Maximus, consul in 144.[3]
Only a few steps in his cursus honorum are known. Ronald Syme states that he is "probably" the Statilius Severus, a military tribune assigned to an unknown legion, to whom Trajan addressed a rescript concerning a soldier's testament.[4]
The other appointment Hadrianus is known to have received was governor of Thracia; he is mentioned as the governor succeeding Publius Juventius Celsus on a military diploma dated 19 July 114.[5] Werner Eck dates the tenure of Hadrianus in Thracia from the years 112 to 115, admitting to the possibility that Hadrianus may have been consul in absentia.[6]
His life after his suffect consulate is a blank.
References[edit]
- ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 468
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 319
- ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 323
- ^ Syme, "Governors of Pannonia Inferior", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 14 (1965), p. 348
- ^ Evgeni I. Paunov & Margaret M. Roxan, "The Earliest Extant Diploma of Thrace, AD 114 (=RMD I.14)", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 119 (1997), pp. 269–279
- ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 112-115