Aulus Egrilius Plarianus, also known as Aulus Egrilius Plarianus Pater was a

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, who flourished during the reign of

Hadrian Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...

. 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 ...

in the ''

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'' of October to December 128 with Quintus Planius Sardus Varius Ambibulus as his colleague; as the first of his family to accede to the consulate, he is a ''

homo novus ''Novus homo'' or ''homo novus'' (Latin for 'new man'; ''novi homines'' or ''homines novi'') was the term in ancient Rome for a man who was the first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate or, more specifically, to be elected as consul. When ...

''. Plarianus is known entirely from inscriptions. Plarianus came from a prominent family of Ostia, known from numerous inscriptions recovered from that port city of Rome. His father was Aulus Egrilius Rufus, a prominent decurion of Ostia, attested as duovir and ''flamen Romae et Augusti''; his mother was Plaria Q.f. Vera. Through his mother's family, the Plarii, Plarianus could trace a connection with the Senatorial Acilii Glabriones: Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 91, had married Arria L.f. Plaria Vera Priscilla, another member of the Plarii. Plarianus had at least one brother,

Marcus Acilius Priscus Egrilius Plarianus Marcus Acilius Priscus Egrilius Plarianus was a Roman senator, who held a number of imperial appointments during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. Mireille Corbier considers him the best known of the Egrilii Plariani, due to the large number of inscrip ...

. His ''

cursus honorum The ''cursus honorum'' (; , or more colloquially 'ladder of offices') was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank. The '' ...

'' is not completely known. Plarianus is attested as having been ''

prefect Prefect (from the Latin ''praefectus'', substantive adjectival form of ''praeficere'': "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area. A prefect's ...

us'' of the ''

aerarium Saturni Aerarium, from ''aes'' (“bronze, money”) + -''ārium'' (“place for”), was the name given in Ancient Rome to the public treasury, and in a secondary sense to the public finances. ''Aerarium populi Romani'' The main ''aerarium'', that ...

'' from the year 123 to 125, when his brother succeeded him in that role. Plarianus then entered the consulate. Both brothers are attested as two of the numerous

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of Ostia. Although the name of his wife has not yet been discovered, Plarianus is known to have had one son, also named Aulus Egrilius Plarianus, who was ''prefectus'' of the ''

aerarium militare The ''aerarium militare'' was the military treasury of Imperial Rome. It was instituted by Augustus, the first Roman emperor, as a "permanent revenue source" for pensions ''(praemia)'' for veterans of the Imperial Roman army. The treasury derive ...

'', but did not advance to the consulate for unknown reasons.Corbier, ''L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare'', pp. 393-395

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