Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus

Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Trajan. He was suffect consul in the year 115, replacing the consul Marcus Pedo Vergilianus killed by an earthquake in Antioch.[1]

Hadrianus was descended from a wealthy Syrian family; Géza Alföldy has identified two of his relatives active in that province, one the patron of Heliopolis (modern Baalbek), the other a prominent citizen of Beirut.[2] He is known to have had at least one son, Titus Statilius Maximus, consul in 144.[3]

Only a few steps in his cursus honorum are known. Ronald Syme states that he is "probably" the Statilius Severus, a military tribune assigned to an unknown legion, to whom Trajan addressed a rescript concerning a soldier's testament.[4]

The other appointment Hadrianus is known to have received was governor of Thracia; he is mentioned as the governor succeeding Publius Juventius Celsus on a military diploma dated 19 July 114.[5] Werner Eck dates the tenure of Hadrianus in Thracia from the years 112 to 115, admitting to the possibility that Hadrianus may have been consul in absentia.[6]

His life after his suffect consulate is a blank.

References
  1. Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 468
  2. Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 319
  3. Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 323
  4. Syme, "Governors of Pannonia Inferior", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 14 (1965), p. 348
  5. Evgeni I. Paunov & Margaret M. Roxan, "The Earliest Extant Diploma of Thrace, AD 114 (=RMD I.14)", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 119 (1997), pp. 269–279
  6. Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 112-115
Political offices
Preceded by
Marcus Pedo Vergilianus,
and Lucius Vipstanus Messalla
as ordinary consuls		 Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
115
with Lucius Vipstanus Messalla		 Succeeded by
Lucius Julius Frugi, and
Publius Juventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus
as suffect consuls
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