Aulus Vicirius Martialis

Aulus Vicirius Martialis was a Roman senator active during the reign of Trajan. He was suffect consul for the nundinium July-August 98 with Lucius Maecius Postumus as his colleague.[1] Martialis 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] Martialis 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, and interred at Siena.[3] Martialis is known to have had a brother, Aulus Vicirius Proculus, suffect consul in the year 89.

Martialis is known to have held only one office, as proconsular governor of Asia in 113/114. It had been thought at one time his brother Proculus instead had been proconsul, but R. Merkelbach has clearly shown Martialis was the governor.[4]

References
  1. John D. Grainger, Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis of AD 96-99 (London: Routledge: 2004), p. 14
  2. Syme, "Missing Persons II", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 8 (1959), p. 210
  3. Vincenzo Saladino, "Iscrizioni Latine di Roselle (II)", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 39 (1980), pp. 229-232
  4. Merkelbach, "Ephesische Parerga (1): Der Proconsul A. Vicirius Martialis", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 24 (1977), p. 150
Political offices
Preceded by
Gaius Pomponius Pius, and
Imp. Caesar Nerva Trajanus II		 Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
98
with Lucius Maecius Postumus		 Succeeded by
Gaius Pomponius Rufus Acilius Priscus Coelius Sparsus,
and Gnaeus Pompeius Ferox Licinianus
as suffect consuls
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