Aulus Vicirius Proculus

Aulus Vicirius Proculus was a Roman senator active during the last half of the first century AD. He was suffect consul for the nundinium September to December 89 with Manius Laberius Maximus as his colleague.[1] Proculus is known only through surviving inscriptions.

Ronald Syme speculated that his gentilicium indicated an origin in either Erutria or Campania, noting a number of Vicirii attested in inscriptions from those parts of Italy.[2] Proculus was the son of an Aulus Vicirius A.f. Proculus, attested as a military tribune of Legio IV Scythica and flamen Augusti during the reign of Claudius, who was buried at Siena.[3] Proculus is known to have had a brother, Aulus Vicirius Martialis, suffect consul in the year 98.

Only one office from Proculus' senatorial career is known, from a military diploma studied and published in 2008. This document attests that Vicirius Proculus was governor of Roman Britain in the year 93, five years after his consulate.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 191, 217
  2. ^ Syme, "Missing Persons II", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 8 (1959), p. 210
  3. ^ Vincenzo Saladino, "Iscrizioni Latine di Roselle (II)", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 39 (1980), pp. 229-232
  4. ^ Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl, "Das erste Diplom für die Flotte von Britannien aus dem Jahr 93 n. Chr.", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 165 (2008), pp. 228f
Political offices
Preceded byas suffect consuls Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
89
with Manius Laberius Maximus 		Succeeded byas ordinary consuls
Unknown
Last known title holder:
Sallustius Lucullus 		Roman governors of Britain
c. 93 		Unknown
Next known title holder:
Publius Metilius Nepos
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