Quintus Haterius Antoninus or known as Antoninus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Claudius and Nero.

Life

He was suffect consul in the year AD 53 as the colleague of Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus.[1]

Antoninus was the only child to Domitia Lepida the Elder and Decimus Haterius Agrippa, consul in 22.[2] His paternal grandfather was the influential orator and senator Quintus Haterius; Ronald Syme suggests that his paternal grandmother was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Caecilia Attica.[3] Sabina Tariverdieva believes her to be the daughter of Agrippa's sister Vipsania Polla.[4]

By the year 58 Antoninus had squandered his inheritance through extravagances, when emperor Nero gave him a yearly stipend of 500,000 sesterces; Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus and Aurelius Cotta, who had likewise squandered their inheritances, also received yearly stipends from the emperor.[5] According to Seneca the Younger, Haterius Antoninus was considered by some as a professional legacy hunter.[6]

References

  1. ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 409, 425.
  2. ^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 162.
  3. ^ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 145.
  4. ^ "Децим Гатерий Агриппа (Консул 22 Г. Н.э.): Происхождение И Родство С Императорским Домом". Vestnik Drevnei Istorii. 1 (288): 88–101. 2014.
  5. ^ Tacitus, Annales, xiii.34.
  6. ^ Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, 6.38.4.
Political offices Preceded byFaustus Cornelius Sulla Felix,and Lucius Salvidienus Rufus Salvianus Consul of the Roman Empire 53with Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus Succeeded byPublius Trebonius, andQuintus Caecina Primus
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