Publius Valerius Patruinus

Publius Valerius Patruinus (died AD 91) was a Roman senator, who flourished under the reign of Domitian. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of July–August 82 with Lucius Antonius Saturninus as his colleague.[1] He is known entirely from inscriptions.

His origins lie at Ticinum in Transpadane Italy.[2] The cursus honorum of Patruinus is known only in piecemeal. The first office he is attested as holding was not a civil office, but a religious one: he was co-opted into the sodales Augustales between the years 70 and 79. Following his consulate, Patruinus is thought to have been governor of the imperial province of Cappadocia. While Werner Eck supports this interpretation of the evidence, and dates his tenure from the year 83 to 85,[3] Bernard Remy argues the evidence in support of this posting is shaky.[2]

It is far more certain that Patruinus was governor to the important imperial province of Syria, which Eck dates from the year 86 to 89.[4] Eck also dates to his governorship his son-in-law Lucius Domitius Apollinaris' command of Legio VI Ferrata.[5] Remy reports Patruinus died in 91.[2]

While we can know the name of his daughter, Valeria Vetilla, we can only speculate the name of Patruinus' wife was Vettia.[6] Apparently he had no son, for there is evidence that his grandson assumed his name, as if he were adopted to continue the lineage.[7]

References

  1. ^ Werner Eck "Epigraphische Untersuchungen zu Konsuln und Senatoren des 1.-3. Jh. n. Chr.", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 37 (1980), pp. 51-54
  2. ^ a b c Remy, Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.) (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), p. 246
  3. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 307-310
  4. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 312-315
  5. ^ Eck, "Epigraphische Untersuchungen zu Konsuln und Senatoren des 1.-3. Jh. N. Chr.", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 37 (1980), p. 56 n. 86
  6. ^ So A. Balland, Fouilles de Xanthos, VII: Inscriptions d'époque impériale du Létôon, (Paris, 1981), p. 103; cited in L'Année épigraphique, 1981, 826
  7. ^ Olli Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), pp. 47f
Political offices
Preceded byas suffect consuls Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
82
with Lucius Antonius Saturninus 		Succeeded byas suffect consuls