Titus Sextius Magius Lateranus was a

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who lived during the second half of the 1st century and first half of the 2nd century. Lateranus served as a

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throug ...

in 94 as the colleague of

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. He is known entirely from inscriptions. In his monograph on Roman naming practices, Olli Salomies points out that the short form of his name was Titus Sextius Lateranus, showing he was a member of the

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Sextia. Based on the inscription his relatives included

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, suffect consul in 59. The third element in his name, "Magia", may indicate his mother came from the Magii, a

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ian family. Lateranus married the Roman noblewoman Volussia Torquata, one of the children of

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and his wife Nonia Torquata. Their children included

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, who served as a consul in 112.Bennett, ''Trajan: Optimus Princeps: a Life and Times'', p. 183

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*Julian Bennett, ''Trajan: Optimus Princeps: a Life and Times'', Routledge, 1997 *''Biographischer Index der Antike'' (Google eBook), Walter de Gruyter, 2001 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sextius Magius Lateranus, Titus (consul 847 AUC) 1st-century Romans 2nd-century Romans Imperial Roman consuls Magius Lateranus, Titus (consul 847 AUC)