Lucius Aemilius Carus

Lucius Aemilius Carus (fl. 2nd century AD) was a Roman military officer and senator who served as consul suffectus in AD 144. His life is known primarily through inscriptions.[1]

Biography

The son of Lucius and a member of the Roman tribe Camilia, Carus' career began with his appointment to the decemviri stlitibus judicandis, one of the offices of the vigintiviri. This was followed by serving as a military tribune, firstly of the Legio VIII Augusta, at the time stationed at Argentoratum (Strasbourg), then of the Legio IX Hispana, sometime after AD 122.[2][3] Anthony Returning to Rome, Carus began his climb up the Republican magistrates: first appointed quaestor to the Emperor, then Plebeian Tribune before achieving the Praetorship.[2]

Returning to the military sphere, Carus was granted the rank of Legatus legionis, commanding the Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix. Anthony Birley notes this was unusual assignment, for Legio XXX and Legio IX were both stationed in the same province, Germania Inferior, and men were rarely assigned command of a legion in the same army as they had held a tribunate; Birley could only list 14 men with that distinction.[4] He returned to civilian life, serving as curator of the Via Flaminia. His next assignment was as Legatus Augusti pro praetore (or governor) of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea during AD 142 to 143.[5] In 144, he was appointed suffect consul, and this was followed up with an appointment as appointed imperial censitor of Gallia Lugdunensis. Finally, he was made Legatus Augusti pro praetore of Cappadocia.[5]

Carus was a member of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis and the sodales Flaviales, two collegia of Roman priesthoods.[5]

Family

Carus' son, also named Lucius Aemilius Carus, was Legatus Augusti pro praetore of the province of Tres Daciae from AD 174/175 to 175, and suffect consul at some point between 170 and 175.[6]

Sources

References

  1. ↑ Most notably, CIL VI, 1333
  2. 1 2 Kleb 1897, p. 27.
  3. ↑ Cowan, R. Roman Legionary AD 69-161 (2013), p. 10
  4. ↑ Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 17f
  5. 1 2 3 Campbell 2006, p. 62.
  6. ↑ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 224 and note
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