Titus Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus was a

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of the second century. He is known to have served as

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in 123 with Gnaeus Sentius Aburnianus as his colleague. He is also attested as

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in 138/139. In discussing the inscription on a marble ''ara'' found in Ratiaria, a city in the Roman province of Upper Moesia, Ivo Topalilov identifies the Titus Minicius Opimianus who dedicated the ''ara'' to the goddess Diana with this senator, and based on the letter forms of the inscription he dates Opimianus' tenure between the years 126 and 129/130. Topalilov notes that "it is very likely that he might have also held another governorship" between the governorship of Moesia and proconsulship of Africa.Topalilov, "A New Governor of Moesia Superior", ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'', 201 (2017), pp. 292-296 The origins of his family are not certain. Although it is clear his family came from Italia, Werner Eck suggests that they came from the town of

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in the

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, noting that his

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Papira had members from the area, that Opimianus and his wife were buried there, and that inscriptions bearing the family name have been found there.Eck, "Ergänzungen", p. 327 Further, Eck reconstructs a genealogy for Opimianus that provides him with a father, (Titus?) Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus, who was procurator of

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during

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's rule, a son, Minicius Opimianus, suffect consul in 155, and a grandson, Minicius Opimianus, who was suffect consul in either 186 or 187, then proconsul of Africa in 202/203.

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