Publius Manilius Vopiscus Vicinillianus

Publius Manilius Vopiscus Vicinillianus was a Roman senator of the 2nd century AD, who was ordinary consul for the year 114 as the colleague of Quintus Ninnius Hasta.

His complete name, Publius Manilius Vopiscus Vicinillianus Lucius Elufrius Julius Quadratus Bassus, is polyonymous; the shorter version of his name that appears in consular dates is Publius Manilius Vopiscus.[1] An inscription recovered from Tibur shows that his father's praenomen was Publius.[2]

Some scholars have suggested that Vopiscus had been adopted by Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus, consul of 105, but Olli Salomies points out "the order of the names rules this out". As doubtful is the connection with Lucius Elufrius Severus, proconsul of Crete and Cyrenaica in 100. Salomies observes that the dedicators of the inscription from Tibur, N. Prosius Platanus and his wife Minilia Eutychia (probably a freedwoman of Vopiscus) are named Vicinilla, Vopiscianus and Atticus, and notes "obviously the parents had the consul in mind when naming two of their children."[3]

Career

The inscription from Tibur provides the details of a likely patrician career, although some offices are presented out of order. Vopiscus began his career in his teenage years as one of the tresviri monetalis, which was the most prestigious of the four boards comprising the vigintiviri, it was usually held either by patricians or favored plebians;[4] about the same time he was admitted into the Salii Collinus. According to the order of the inscription Vopiscus as a military tribune in Legio IV Scythica, before he was a quaestor in attendance to the emperor Trajan; this order is unusual, for by this point in history, serving as a military tribune almost always came after the office of quaestor.[5] After his term as praetor, Vopiscus was admitted as flamen, then was co-opted into the collegia of pontifs. He served as a curator fani Herculis Victoris fuit Tibure before acceding to the consulship.

Vopiscus' career after the consulate and the date of his death are unknown.

References

  1. ↑ Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinski: Societas Scientiarum Fenica, 1992), p. 138
  2. ↑ CIL XIV, 04242
  3. ↑ Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature, p. 139
  4. ↑ Anthony Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 4f
  5. ↑ Birley, Fasti of Roman Britain, p. 14
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