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143:. Syme considers this post a "posture of esteem". However, the relationship between this office and being favored in promotions has been questioned: in a study of this phenomenon, Paul Leunissen observed that "the number of ascertained cases remains low altogether and the differences between individual provinces are too small to justify any conclusion in the direction of ranking-differences between them ... only a few testimonia could bring about considerable shifts." One recorded act during his tenure as proconsul was his demarcating territory in a boundary dispute of the territory of the city of Cisimbrium (modern 192:
states shared her inheritance with him (IV.75), showing she came from a wealthy family. According to Martial, she was present in Cappadocia when he died, for he mentions she brought his ashes back to Rome from there (IX.30). Mummia was somehow related to the Valerii Vegeti, but records explaining
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petitioned him for relief from a famine caused by a harsh winter; his response was recorded on an inscription retrieved from that city. He died while still governor, likely in c. 93; his successor,
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notes an inscription recovered there attesting to a magistrate with an identical name. He may have descended from an Italian settler of the
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or decorations he received. This was followed with an appointment to the curatorship of the Viae
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Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139",
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Leunissen, "Direct Promotions from Proconsul to Consul under the Principate",
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After his consulship Rusticus was governor of the important province of
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believes he played an important role in rallying the legions in
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The petition and response are translated by Robert K. Sherk,
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Epigraphic Evidence for Boundary Disputes in the Roman Empire
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active in the later part of the first century AD. He was
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Rusticus is known to have married Mummia Nigrina, whom
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Index

Roman
senator
suffect consul
Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus
Corduba
Ronald Syme
gens Antistia
vigintiviri
Year of the Four Emperors
military tribune
Legio II Augusta
Anthony Birley
Britain
Vespasian
adlection
praetorian
dona militaria
Aurelia
Cornelia
Legio VIII Augusta
Argentorate
Germania Superior
proconsular
Baetica
Zambra
Aerarium Saturni
Cappadocia
Galatia
decurions
Antioch

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