Marcus Ulpius Leurus

Marcus Ulpius Leurus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Septimus Severus and Caracalla.

Life

He was suffect consul in some undetermined nundinium in their reigns.[1] He is known entirely from inscriptions, which report little more about his cursus honorum than his consulate.

Leurus had his origins in Thessaly, then part of the province of Macedonia;[2] his gentilicium suggests he is descended from a man who obtained Roman Citizenship in the time of Trajan. Leurus is attested as having married Flavia Habroea; John H. Oliver has traced her paternal lineage, consisting of a number of prominent men of Hypata, for three generations.[3] Together they had a son, Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus, also a suffect consul around the year 230.[1]

Family tree

Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens
consul ordinarius		Marcus Pupienus Maximus
Quintus Tineius Clemens
consul ordinarius		Quintius Tineius Rufus
consul 182		Quintus Tineius Sacerdos
consul suffectus
∞ Volusia Laodice		Pupienus
Roman Emperor
(238)
∞ Sextia Cethegilla		Marcus Ulpius Leurus
senator
TineiaTitus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus
consul suffectus		Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus
consul ordinarius
∞ Cornelia Marullina		Pupiena Sextia Paulina CethegillaMarcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus
suffect consul
Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus
proconsul
∞ Ovinia Paterna

References

  1. ^ a b Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 172
  2. ^ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 368
  3. ^ See the stemma at Oliver, "Review of: Die romischen Reichsbeamten von Achaia bis auf Diokletian by Edmund Groag; Die Reichsbeamten von Achaia in spatromischer Zeit by Edmund Groag", American Journal of Philology, 69 (1948), p. 441