Titus Vibius Varus was a Roman senator who was ordinary consul in AD 134 as the colleague of Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus, the brother-in-law of the emperor Hadrian.[1] He is known from inscriptions and the Digest (XXII, 5,3,1); he is also attested by a military diploma,[2] which shows, that he was still in office on April 2, together with Titus Haterius Nepos as his colleague.[3]

Bernard Rémy identifies Varus as the son of the homonymous suffect consul in 115. Rémy also suggests that their family came from Brixia in Istria, or Region X of Italy.[3] In his monograph on naming practices in the early Roman Empire, Olli Salomies writes that Varus was the father of Titus Clodius Vibius Varus, ordinary consul of 160. Salomies also suggests that the gentilicum Clodius and the presence of the uncommon praenomen Titus may indicate Varus the elder was married to a Clodia, or a female member of the gens Clodius.[4]

Vibius Varus is known to have held only one other office, governor of the imperial province of Cilicia; Werner Eck dates his tenure in Cilicia from the year 130 to 133.[5]

References

  1. ^ Werner Eck, Paul Holder and Andreas Pangerl, . "A Diploma for the Army of Britain in 132 and Hadrian's Return to Rome from the East", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 174 (2010), p. 194
  2. ^ CIL XVI, 78
  3. ^ a b Remy, Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.) (Pont-Bithynie, Galatie, Cappadoce, Lycie-Pamphylie et Cilicie), (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), p. 343
  4. ^ Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), pp. 99f
  5. ^ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 169-173
Political offices Preceded byTiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, and Publius Sufenas Verusas suffect consuls Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 134with Lucius Julius Ursus Servianusfollowed by Titus Haterius Nepos Succeeded byPublius Licinius Pansa, and Lucius Attius Macroas suffect consuls
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