Aulus Vicirius Proculus was a

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senator active during the last half of the first century AD. He was suffect consul for the '' nundinium'' September to December 89 with Manius Laberius Maximus as his colleague. Proculus is known only through surviving inscriptions.

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speculated that his ''

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'' indicated an origin in either Erutria or Campania, noting a number of Vicirii attested in inscriptions from those parts of Italy. Proculus was the son of an Aulus Vicirius A.f. Proculus, attested as a

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and flamen Augusti during the reign of Claudius, who was buried at

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. Proculus is known to have had a brother, Aulus Vicirius Martialis, suffect consul in the year 98. Only one office from Proculus' senatorial career is known, from a

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studied and published in 2008. This document attests that Vicirius Proculus was governor of

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in the year 93, five years after his consulate.

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and Andreas Pangerl
"Das erste Diplom für die Flotte von Britannien aus dem Jahr 93 n. Chr."
''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'', 165 (2008), pp. 228f

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