Aulus Petronius Lurco was a

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senator, who was active during the

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. He was suffect consul in the '' nundinium'' for the second half of the year 58 AD with

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as his colleague. He is known entirely from inscriptions. It is known that Lurco was one of the Arval Brethren. A "M. Petronius Lurco" is mentioned as one of the three ''curatores tabulariorum publicorum'', along with Gaius Calpetanus Rantius Sedatus and Titus Satrius Decianus; this Petronius Lurco may be a brother of the consul of 58. Yet because the inscription that attests to this is known from a transcription in the '' Einsiedeln Itinerary'', which has errors, it is also possible the initial should be an "A." and Petronius Lurco is identical to the consul.

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