Marcus Nummius Tuscus (fl. 3rd century AD) was a

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who was appointed

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in AD 258.

Biography

Nummius Tuscus was the son of

Marcus Nummius Senecio Albinus Marcus Nummius Senecio Albinus (fl. 3rd century AD) was a Roman Empire, Roman Senate of the Roman Empire, senator who was appointed Roman consul, consul in AD 227 with Marcus Laelius Fulvius Maximus Aemilianus. Nothing else of his career has been p ...

who had been

in AD 227. He in turn was appointed ''consul prior'' in AD 258, alongside Mummius Bassus. No further details of his career have survived. Nummius Tuscus was perhaps the brother of Marcus Nummius Albinus who was ''consul ordinarius'' in AD 263, and he may have been the father of Marcus Nummius Tuscus, who was consul in AD 295. According to the notoriously unreliable ''

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'', on one occasion he accompanied the

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Valerian to the city of

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where they visited some public baths.Mennen, pg. 115

Sources

* Mennen, Inge, ''Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284'' (2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nummius Tuscus, Marcus 3rd-century Roman consuls Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown