Lucius Corellius Neratius Pansa was a

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, who was active during the reign of

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. He was ordinary consul in AD 122 as the colleague of

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. Other than holding the office of consul, Pansa is only known for being the subject of a letter of

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. Pansa was a member of the gens Neratia, which could boast of consuls before Pansa.

Ronald Syme Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman ...

has argued that he was the son of

Lucius Neratius Marcellus Lucius Neratius Marcellus (''fl''. 1st century – 2nd century AD) was an imperial Roman military officer and senator who held a number of posts in the Emperor's service. Marcellus was elected consul twice, first under Domitian in 95AD and agai ...

, consul in 95 and again in 129, and his first wife Corellia Hispulla, the daughter of Quintus Corellius Rufus, suffect consul in 78. An alimentary table dated to 101 listing estates near Beneventum (modern

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) records land owned by one Neratius Corellius and Nertarius Marcellus in close connection, further strengthening Syme's argument. In the letter Pliny wrote to Hispulla, he remarks how Pansa will grow up to be like his grandfather in fame and character, then states that the time has come now to send the boy off to school and recommends one Julius Genitor to teach him

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.Pliny, ''Epistulae'', III.3

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