Gaius Memmius Regulus

Gaius Memmius Regulus was a Roman senator who lived during the 1st century in the Roman Empire.

Family background and early life

Regulus was a member of the Plebeian gens, Memmia. He was the son of Roman Senator, consul Publius Memmius Regulus and Lollia Paulina,[1] a woman of great beauty and considerable wealth. His father was the son of an elder Publius Memmius Regulus from his unnamed wife who originally was from Roussillon of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis. His mother was the second daughter of the suffect consul Marcus Lollius and the noble woman Volusia Saturnina.[2]

Regulus was born at an unknown date during the second half of the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius. When his father served as a praefect of Achaea in 35, he and his father were honored with various statues. In 38, the Roman emperor Caligula forced his parents to divorce, so that Caligula could marry his mother for himself.[3][4]

Political career

Regulus served as an ordinary consul in 63 with Lucius Verginius Rufus during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero.[5] After his consulship, in 65 Regulus joined the priesthood of the Sodales Augustales and later in the Sodales Claudialium.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Memmius Regulus by D.C. O’Driscoll
  2. ↑ Lollius by D.C. O’Driscoll
  3. ↑ Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, xv. 23.
  4. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
  5. ↑ Paul A. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", Classical Quarterly, 24 (1974), p. 292
  6. ↑ Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart 1999, T. 7, c. 1201

Sources

Political offices
Preceded by
Publius Marius,
and Lucius Afinius Gallus		 Consul of the Roman Empire
63 		Succeeded by
Gaius Laecanius Bassus,
and Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi II
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