Licinius Nepos lived during the reign of the emperor

Trajan Trajan ( ; la, Caesar Nerva Traianus; 18 September 539/11 August 117) was Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Officially declared ''optimus princeps'' ("best ruler") by the senate, Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presi ...

. Pliny the Younger, a Roman writer, mentions Licinius Nepos in his letters. Pliny describes him as a

praetor Praetor ( , ), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected '' magistratus'' (magistrate), assigned to discharge vari ...

, who is so brave and strong that he is unafraid to punish even senators.

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 ...

has proposed identifying him with the suffect consul of 127, M. Licinius Celer Nepos.Syme, "The Enigmatic Sospes", ''Journal of Roman Studies'', 67 (1977), p. 43

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