Summary
Popilius Pedo Apronianus (died 205) was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Septimius Severus. He was Roman consul in the year 191 with Marcus Valerius Bradua Mauricus as his colleague.[1]
A member of the Patrician order, Apronianus has been identified as the grandson of Gaius Popilius Carus Pedo, suffect consul in 147.[2]
Apronianus is known to have been proconsular governor of Asia. While proconsul he was murdered on specious grounds: according to Cassius Dio, Arponianus' nurse reported having a dream where he had been engarbed[check spelling] as emperor, and it was believed Apronianus had practiced magic to achieve this.[3] Paul Leunissen dates his tenure as proconsul to either 204/205 or 205/206.[4] Ségolène Demougin suggests Apronianus' fatal end was connected with the fall from power of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who was executed on 22 January 205; since proconsuls assumed their posts in the summer months, this would date his tenure to 204/205, and mean the procurator Aelius Aglaus served as interim governor until a successor could arrive in the province.[5]
References edit
- ^ Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (180-235 n. Chr.) (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1989), p. 132
- ^ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 108
- ^ Dio, Historia Romanike 76.8.1
- ^ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 223
- ^ Ségolène Demougin, "Proconsuls d'Asie sous Septime Sévère, les gouverneurs de la province de 200 à 211", Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1994 (1996), p. 329
