Marcus Atilius Postumus Bradua was a
Roman
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senator
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during the later part of the first century. He was
suffect consul
A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...
for the ''
nundinium Nundinium was a Latin word derived from the word '' nundinum'', which referred to the cycle of days observed by the Romans. During the Roman Empire, ''nundinium'' came to mean the duration of a single consulship among several in a calendar year.
S ...
'' July-August 80 with
Quintus Pompeius Trio as his colleague. He was also governor of
Asia
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in 94/95.
Bradua is commonly believed to be the father of
Marcus Atilius Metilius Bradua
Marcus Appius Bradua, also known by his full name Marcus Atilius Metilius BraduaBirley, ''Roman government'', p. 112 (Greek: ''Μαρκόν Άππιον Βραδούαν'' This version of his name is known from an honorific Greek stone inscrip ...
, suffect consul in 108; if so, his son's name indicates that Bradua married a Metilia.
[Olli Salomies, ''Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire'', (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 107]
References
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1st-century Romans
2nd-century Romans
Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome
Roman governors of Asia
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