Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus was a

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senator active in the reigns of

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and Hadrian.

Biography

Early life

Lamia Aelianus was possibly the son of the empress Domitia Longina and

Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus (c. 4581/96) was a Roman senator. Life He was described by Brian W. Jones as "the most eminent of the consular victims" of Domitian.Jones, ''The Emperor Domitian'' (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 184 Juvena ...

or their maternal grandson through a daughter Aelia Plautia and her husband a Lucius Fundanius, son of a Lucius Fundanius.

Ronald Syme Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman ...

identifies Lamia Aelianus as the brother of the surmised but undocumented Plautia, who was married three times, and whose children married into the Antonine dynasty.

Career

He was ordinary consul in 116 with Sextus Carminius Vetus as his colleague. He was later

proconsul A proconsul was an official of ancient Rome who acted on behalf of a consul. A proconsul was typically a former consul. The term is also used in recent history for officials with delegated authority. In the Roman Republic, military command, or ...

ar governor of

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during 131 and 132.

Family

He married Rupilia, sister of Rupilia Faustina, wife of Marcus Annius Verus, three times consul, and perhaps daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus and wife Salonia Matidia, maternal niece of

, and had two known children, a son and a daughter. Their son was

Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus (c. 110 – aft. 145) was a Roman senator. Life He was suffect consul for the '' nundinium'' of March-April 145 with Lucius Poblicola Priscus as his colleague. Silvanus was the son of Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aeli ...

, consul in 145. Their daughter was Fundania, whose existence is inferred from the name of her daughter

Annia Fundania Faustina Annia Fundania Faustina (died 192) was a noble Roman woman who lived in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century AD. She was the paternal cousin of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his sister Annia Cornificia Faustina. Life Fundania Faustina was t ...

, daughter of

Marcus Annius Libo Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman Senator active in the early second century AD. Life Libo came from the upper ranks of the Roman aristocracy. He was the son of Marcus Annius Verus, consul III in 126, and Rupilia Faustina. Annius Verus was Spanish o ...

, consul in 128, and thus Libo's wife. Anthony Birley, ''Marcus Aurelius, a Biography'', revised edition (London: Routledge, 1987), p. 32

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