Gaius Memmius Regulus was a first-century
Roman
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* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
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senator
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. He was
ordinary consul in AD 63, with
Lucius Verginius Rufus
Lucius Verginius Rufus (AD 1597; sometimes incorrectly called Lucius Virginus Rufus) was a Roman commander of Germania Superior during the late 1st century. He was three times consul (in 63, 69, and 97). He was born near Comum, the birthplace of b ...
as his colleague.
Background and family
Regulus was the son of
Publius Memmius Regulus, consul ''suffectus'' in AD 31. His grandfather, Publius Memmius Regulus, had married a woman from
Ruscino, in the
province
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of
Gallia Narbonensis
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. Although the year of his birth is uncertain, Regulus was born during the second half of the reign of the
emperor
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Tiberius
Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was the second Roman emperor. He reigned from AD 14 until 37, succeeding his stepfather, the first Roman emperor Augustus. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC. His father ...
. His father was governor of
Achaea
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in AD 35, and both father and son were honored with various statues.
Political career
Regulus was appointed consul ''ordinarius'' in AD 63, during the reign of
Nero
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. His colleague was
Lucius Verginius Rufus
Lucius Verginius Rufus (AD 1597; sometimes incorrectly called Lucius Virginus Rufus) was a Roman commander of Germania Superior during the late 1st century. He was three times consul (in 63, 69, and 97). He was born near Comum, the birthplace of b ...
. They served a full six months, from the Kalends of January to the Kalends of July. Regulus' father had died two years earlier, and did not live to see his son reach the pinnacle of his career. After his consulship, Regulus joined the priesthood of the ''
Sodales Augustales'', and later the ''
Sodales Claudialium''.
[''Der Neue Pauly'', vol. 7, col. 1201.]
See also
*
Memmia gens
References
Bibliography
* Gaius Plinius Secundus (
Pliny the Elder
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), ''
Historia Naturalis'' (Natural History).
*
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, ''
Annales
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List of works with titles contai ...
''.
*
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; c. AD 69 – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
His most important surviving work is a set of biographies ...
, ''
De Vita Caesarum'' (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars).
* Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (
Cassius Dio
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), ''Roman History''.
* ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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'',
William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
*
Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th centur ...
''et alii'', ''
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
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'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
* Paul A. Gallivan,
Some Comments on the ''Fasti'' for the Reign of Nero, in ''
Classical Quarterly
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Constitution
The association was founded on 19 December 1903, and its objects are def ...
'', vol. 24, pp. 290–311 (1974).
* ''Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike. Das klassische Altertum und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte'', Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, eds., J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart (1996–2012).
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