Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus (fl. 1st century AD) was a

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. He was appointed

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in AD 8 as the colleague of Marcus Furius Camillus.

Biography

Nonius Quinctilianus was probably the son of Lucius Nonius Asprenas, who was the son of the suffect consul of 36 BC, and Quinctilla, who was the sister of

Publius Quinctilius Varus Publius Quinctilius Varus ( Cremona, 46 BC – Teutoburg Forest, AD 9) was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus. Varus is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by Germanic tribe ...

(who died at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest). It has also been postulated that he may have been the natural son of Publius Quinctilius Varus and who was at some point adopted by his brother-in-law Lucius Nonius Asprenas. If so, he might have been a son of Varus' wife Vipsania. In 6 BC, Nonius Quinctilianus was a ''

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''. In 4 BC he accompanied Varus to

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, probably as one of his military tribunes. His "election" as

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in AD 8 occurred under unusual circumstances as the elections in AD 7 for the following year's magistrates were so contentious that the

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was forced to appoint them himself, with Augustus selecting Nonius Quinctilianus as one of the consuls. He was subsequently appointed the

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, serving in AD 16/17. Nonius Quinctilianus married Sosia, a daughter of

Gaius Sosius Gaius Sosius ( 39–17 BC) was a Roman general and politician who featured in the wars of the late Republic as a staunch supporter of Mark Antony. Under the latter's patronage he held important state offices and military commands, serving a ...

, the consul of 32 BC, and they had at least two sons, Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus, the suffect consul of AD 38, and Lucius Nonius Quinctilianus.Badel, Christophe, ''La noblesse de l'Empire romain: les masques et la vertu'' (2005), p. 129

References

Sources

*Levick, Barbara, ''Tiberius the Politician'' (1999) *Swan, Peter Michael, ''The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14)'' (2004) *Syme, Ronald, ''The Augustan Aristocracy'' (1986).

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