Lucius Antonius Naso

Lucius Antonius Naso was an man of ancient Rome who served as tribune of the Praetorian Guard in the year 69, and procurator of the Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus during the reign of Vespasian.[1][2] It is likely he was from Heliopolis (modern Baalbek), as that is where the most notable inscription about his life was found.[3][4]

Antonius was dismissed from the Praetorian Guard by the emperor Galba, likely for disloyalty,[5] but appears to have regained imperial favor after Galba's fall, and was able to resume his military career afterward.[6] It's likely he acquired his military decorations either during the rebellion of Gaius Iulius Vindex against the emperor Nero, or during the fight against the Pisonian conspiracy in 65.[7]

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Notes

  1. ^ Tacitus, Historiae i. 20.
  2. ^ Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum ii. p. 404.
  3. ^ Fields, Nic (2014). AD69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473838147. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  4. ^ Cotton, Hannah (2009). From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. Cambridge University Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780521875813. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  5. ^ Rudich, Vasily (2005). Political Dissidence Under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation. Routledge. p. 323. ISBN 9781134914517. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  6. ^ Bingham, Sandra (2013). The Praetorian Guard: A History of Rome's Elite Special Forces. I.B. Tauris. pp. 55–56. ISBN 9781845118846. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  7. ^ Campbell, Brian (2006). The Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 337. Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World. Routledge. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9781134909407. Retrieved 2016-02-13.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Antonius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 628.

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