Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Peticus

Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Peticus was a Roman senator during the reign of Nero. Peticus served as suffect consul in 46 with Marcus Junius Silanus as his colleague, and as Proconsul of Africa from 56 to 57.[1][2]

Peticus was a member of the gens, Sulpicia. He was also a member of the Arval Brethren, and served as president of the Board of Sacrifice in 60.[2] He was charged with extortion but was acquitted by Roman emperor Nero.[3] In 67, he was killed with his son Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Pythicus[4] by Helius during the absence of Nero.[5] Peticus also had a daughter called Sulpicia Praetextata who married the consul of 64, Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Sherk, Robert K. (14 July 1988). The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-521-33887-5.
  2. 1 2 Raleigh Nelson, J. (1903), "The Boy Poet Sulpicius: A Tragedy of Roman Education", The School Review, 11 (5): 384–395
  3. ↑ Vasily Rudich (2013). Political Dissidence Under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation. New York: Routledge. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-134-91451-7.
  4. ↑ Steven H. Rutledge (2002). Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian. Routledge.
  5. ↑ Shaminga, Bope Katal (2000). La justice de Néron d'après Tacite. Thèse à la carte. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion. p. 103.
  6. ↑ Rudich, Political Dissidence Under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation
Political offices
Preceded by
Marcus Pompeius Silvanus Staberius Flavianus		 Proconsul of Africa
56 – 57 		Succeeded by
Gnaeus Hosidius Geta
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