Summary
Aulus Vicirius Proculus was a Roman senator active during the last half of the first century AD. He was suffect consul for the nundinium September to December 89 with Manius Laberius Maximus as his colleague.[1] Proculus is known only through surviving inscriptions.
Ronald Syme speculated that his gentilicium indicated an origin in either Erutria or Campania, noting a number of Vicirii attested in inscriptions from those parts of Italy.[2] Proculus was the son of an Aulus Vicirius A.f. Proculus, attested as a military tribune of Legio IV Scythica and flamen Augusti during the reign of Claudius, who was buried at Siena.[3] Proculus is known to have had a brother, Aulus Vicirius Martialis, suffect consul in the year 98.
Only one office from Proculus' senatorial career is known, from a military diploma studied and published in 2008. This document attests that Vicirius Proculus was governor of Roman Britain in the year 93, five years after his consulate.[4]
References edit
- ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 191, 217
- ^ Syme, "Missing Persons II", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 8 (1959), p. 210
- ^ Vincenzo Saladino, "Iscrizioni Latine di Roselle (II)", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 39 (1980), pp. 229-232
- ^ Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl, "Das erste Diplom für die Flotte von Britannien aus dem Jahr 93 n. Chr.", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 165 (2008), pp. 228f