Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus (consul 34)

Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus was a Roman senator who lived in the first half of the first century AD. He was suffect consul in 34 with Titus Rustius Nummius Gallus,[1] and proconsul of Africa in 41-43.

An inscription found in Hippo Regius provide information about Soranus.[2] His filiation in this inscription attests that his father's praenomen was Gaius, and he had held the office of "XVvir sacris faciundis" and had been appointed a fetial.

Other inscriptions recovered from the former province attest to his influence there: Soranus enfranchised a number of Africans, who afterwards used "Marcius" as their gentilicum.[3]

Family

Soranus is known to have two sons: Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus, suffect consul of 52; and Quintus Marcius Barea Sura, the grandfather of Trajan.

References

  1. ↑ CIL VI, 244
  2. ↑ E. Mary Smallwood, Documents Illustrating the Principates of Gaius, Claudius and Nero (Cambridge, 1967), No. 405
  3. ↑ Lepcis Magna: Romanization
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