Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus (c. 45 - after 94) was a
Roman
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senator active during the
Flavian dynasty
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. He was
suffect consul for the ''
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'' of March-June 79 with
Publius Calvisius Ruso as his colleague.
Caesennius was the son and namesake of
Lucius Caesennius Paetus
Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus (c. 20 - 72?) was a Roman senator, and member of the ''gens'' Caesennia and Junia, who held several offices in the emperor's service. He was '' consul ordinarius'' for the year 61 as the colleague of Publius Petron ...
, consul in 61, and Flavia Sabina, the daughter of
Titus Flavius Sabinus.
Paetus is known to have served as a
military tribune
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in 62 under
Domitius Corbulo. Despite the military reverses of his father, his career was not unduly harmed, for Paetus was Consul Suffectus and finally
proconsul
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ar governor of
Asia
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in 93/94.
Werner Eck
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, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", ''Chiron
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Biography
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'', 12 (1982), pp. 287, 290, 321
References
Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome
Roman governors of Syria
Roman governors of Asia
Flavian dynasty
Paetus, Lucius Junius
Nerva–Antonine dynasty
1st-century Romans
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