Marcius Agrippa

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Marcius Agrippa (fl. late 2nd/early 3rd century) was originally a slave serving as a beautician, who later became a freedman in some unknown way, and then (illegally) started to encroach upon the rank of Equestrian, serving as avocatus fisci during the reign of Septimius Severus. His impersonation of a man of higher rank was discovered shortly afterwards, and the emperor exiled him to an island. He was called back to Rome by the emperor Caracalla, probably given a grant of ingenuitas, and was elevated to senatorial rank.[1] He was appointed by the emperor Macrinus in 217, first to the government of Pannonia and after­wards to that of Dacia.[2][3]

He is almost certainly the same person as the Marcius Agrippa, Roman admiral (likely of the Misene fleet),[4] who is mentioned by Spartianus "as privy to the death of Antoninus Caracallus.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Reinhold, Meyer; American Philological Association (2002). Studies in Classical History and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 34. ISBN 0-19-514543-7. 
  2. ^ Cassius Dio, lxxviii. 13
  3. ^ Smith, William Smith (1867), “Agrippa, Marcius”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 78 
  4. ^ Botsford, George Willis (1941). The Development of the Athenian Constitution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 192. ISBN 0-8371-7918-1. 
  5. ^ Spartianus, Anton. Car. 6

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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