Titus Vibius Varus was a

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who was ordinary consul in AD 134 as the colleague of

Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus (45 – 136 AD) was an Iberian Roman politician. He was a prominent public figure in the reigns of Roman emperors Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. He was the last private citizen to receive a third consulship; such honors ...

, the brother-in-law of the emperor

Hadrian Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania ...

. He is known from inscriptions and the

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(XXII, 5,3,1); he is also attested by a

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, which shows, that he was still in office on April 2, together with Titus Haterius Nepos as his colleague.Remy
''Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.) (Pont-Bithynie, Galatie, Cappadoce, Lycie-Pamphylie et Cilicie)''
(Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), p. 343 Bernard Rémy identifies Varus as the son of the homonymous suffect consul in 115. Rémy also suggests that their family came from Brixia in

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, or Region X of Italy. In his monograph on naming practices in the early Roman Empire, Olli Salomies writes that Varus was the father of

Titus Clodius Vibius Varus Titus Clodius Vibius Varus was a Roman senator who was ordinary consul in AD 160 as the colleague of Appius Annius Atilius Bradua. A bull offering was made to the goddess Cybele for the health of Emperor Antoninus Pius and for the preservation of ...

, ordinary consul of 160. Salomies also suggests that the ''gentilicum'' Clodius and the presence of the uncommon ''praenomen'' Titus may indicate Varus the elder was married to a Clodia, or a female member of the ''

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. Vibius Varus is known to have held only one other office, governor of the imperial province of

Cilicia Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern co ...

;

Werner Eck Werner Eck (born 17 December 1939) is Professor of Ancient History at Cologne University, Germany, and a noted expert on the history and epigraphy of imperial Rome.Eck, W. (2007) ''The Age of Augustus''. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, cover notes. Hi ...

dates his tenure in Cilicia from the year 130 to 133.Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", ''

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'', 12 (1982), pp. 169-173

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