Gaius Bellicius Flaccus Torquatus Tebanianus was a
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
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senator
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during the reign of
Hadrian
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. He was
consul posterior in 124 with
Manius Acilius Glabrio as his colleague.
The
Bellicii were a family who had their origins in
Vienne
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. Torquatus Tebanianus was the son of
Gaius Bellicius Natalis Gavidius Tebanianus, suffect consul of AD 87, and Calpurnia Arria, the daughter of
Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas
Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas (fl. 1st century – 2nd century AD) was a Roman senator who achieved the office of '' consul ordinarius'' twice, first under Domitian and later under Hadrian.
Biography
Torquatus Asprenas was the son ...
, suffect consul for some ''
nundinium Nundinium was a Latin word derived from the word ''nundinum'', which referred to the cycle of days observed by the Romans. During the Roman Empire, ''nundinium'' came to mean the duration of a single consulship among several in a calendar year.
S ...
'' between 72 and 74. He had two sons, who both achieved the honor of ordinary consuls:
Gaius Bellicius Flaccus Torquatus, consul of 143; and
Gaius Bellicius Calpurnius Torquatus
Gaius Bellicius Calpurnius Torquatus was a Roman senator during the reign of Antoninus Pius. He was consul posterior in 148 as the colleague of Lucius Octavius Cornelius Publius Salvius Julianus Aemilianus. Calpurnius Torquatus was the son of Gai ...
, consul of 148.
[Alföldy, ''Konsulat und Senatorenstand'', pp. 323f]
References
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2nd-century Roman consuls
Flaccus Tebianus Torquatus, Gaius