SOME IMPORTANT ROMAN CAREER TYPES



STATUS:
EXAMPLE:
SENATORIAL:
LUCIUS CALPURNIUS PISO
  • son of Piso Caesoninus (consul of 58 B.C.), and thus Julius Caesar's brother-in-law; born ca. 48 B.C.
  • proconsul of Transpadine Gaul: 16–13 B.C.
  • consul ordinarius 15 B.C.
  • in Pamphylia, 14/13 (as Legate of Agrippa?)
  • Proconsul in Macedonia and Legate of Augustus (in a campaign against the Bessi, for which he was granted the ornaments of a triumph): 12–10 B.C.
  • Proconsul of Asia: 3/2 B.C.
  • Legatus Augusti pro praetore in Syria: ca. 4–1 B.C.
  • Praefectus Urbi ( A. D. 13–32) [head of the police force of Rome]
  • given a state funeral in 32 (Tacitus Annales VI. 11.3)
EQUESTRIAN/
SENATORIAL:















 

CAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS (Pliny the Younger) [H.-G. Pflaum, Carrières équestres (1960) #45]

  • Born late 60 or early 61; nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder
  • Decemvir stlitibus iudicandis: 81 A.D.
  • Tribunus militum of Legio III Gallica in Syria
  • Sevir Equitum Romanorum
  • Quaestor Augusti: 88 or 89
  • Tribunus Plebis: 91
  • Praetor: 93
  • Praefectus Aerarii militaris: 94–96
  • Praefectus Aerarii Saturni: 98–100
  • Consul: September-October, 100
  • elected Augur: 103
  • Curator alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacarum urbis: 104–106
  • Special envoy of Trajan in Bithynia: September 111–113.
EQUESTRIAN: TIBERIUS. IULIUS ALEXANDER [H.-G. Pflaum, Carrières équestres (1960) #17]
  • A Jew of Greek culture from Alexandria in Egypt; son of Alexander Lysimachos the Arabarch, and nephew of Philo Judaeus.
  • Granted citizenship by Tiberius
  • Epistrategos of the Thebaid region of Egypt (attested in 42)
  • Procurator of Judaea: 46 A.D.
  • named by Nero in 63 A.D. as minister bello to Corbulo [Tacitus Annales XV. 28]
  • named by Nero in 66 A.D. as Praefectus Aegypti [Josephus Bellum Judaicum II. 15.1]
  • with Mucianus (Legatus Augusti of Syria), the leading promoter of Vespasian's bid for the Empire in 69
  • a commander of the army of Judaea under Titus during the siege of Jerusalem
  • Praefectus praetorio
SLAVE/
FREEDMAN:

 

TIBERIUS. CLAUDIUS ETRUSCUS [Statius Silvae III. 3.60 ff.]

  • came from Smyrna as a slave
  • freed by Tiberius
  • attended on Caligula in Gaul
  • appointed by Claudius as governor of Britannicus
  • A rationibus to Nero
  • took part in Vespasian's triumph: 71 A.D.
  • raised to Equestrian rank: ca. 73/4
  • exiled to Campania by Domitian, but soon recalled
  • died under Domitian, aged ca. 90


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