Marcus Vipstanus Gallus
Marcus Vipstanus Gallus | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 28 BC |
| Died | after AD 18 |
| Nationality | Roman |
| Known for | Roman senator, Suffect consul in AD 18 |
| Spouse | Valeria? |
| Children | Lucius Vipstanus Publicola, Messalla Vipstanus Gallus, possibly Gaius Vipstanus Apronianus |
| Relatives | Lucius Vipstanus Gallus (brother/relative) |
Marcus Vipstanus Gallus (born around 28 BC, died after AD 18) was a Roman senator at the beginning of the first century AD. He served as suffect consul in 18 with Gaius Rubellius Blandus as his colleague.[1]
He likely came from the area of Cliternia, among the Sabines and Aequi.[2] He was a homo novus, the first of his family to attain the consulship.[2] His relative (perhaps brother) Lucius Vipstanus Gallus served as praetor and died in 17.[3] An inscription from the Athenian Acropolis honors both brothers.[4]
Marcus’s suffect consulship in 18 may have begun in August or October, possibly replacing Gaius Annius Pollio who abdicated before the year’s end.[5] He may have married Valeria, likely the daughter of the consul of 3 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, whose friendship with Tiberius may have helped secure Marcus’s promotion.[2][6]
His son, Lucius Vipstanus Publicola, became an ordinary consul in 48, and another son, Messalla Vipstanus Gallus, served as suffect consul in the same year.[7] Some genealogies also link him with Gaius Vipstanus Apronianus, consul in 59, suggesting a possible connection to the gens Apronia.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
- ^ a b c Ronald Syme, Roman Papers, II, ed. by Ernst Badian, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 533–536
- ^ Tacitus, Annales, II, 51, 1.
- ^ IG II2 4185.
- ^ CIL IV, 1552; CIL VI, 14221; AE 1993, 1161
- ^ Ronald Syme, Roman Papers, III, ed. by Anthony R. Birley, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984, p. 1360.
- ^ Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart 1999, Vol. 12/2, p. 240.
- ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani V 687; V 689.
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