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at an undetermined date. Syme also speculates that Montanus was obtained the suffect consulate due to "special favour from Titus". Jones agrees that Titus' "assessment, it is clear, differed substantially" about Montanus, speculating that "perhaps Montanus and Titus had known each other from Nero's
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court, for they were about the same age." Jones notes he retained imperial favor after Titus' death "for his conviviality rather than for any other discernible quality."
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The inscription from Alexandria indicates his father's name was Gaius, and he was a member of the Roman tribe Aniesus. According to
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had a different opinion of Montanus, for the only office he held under that emperor was praetorian proconsul of
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Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139",
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4.107", and suggests that he may be the Montanus mentioned in another passage (4.137).
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Montanus began his career in the Imperial service likely in his teens as a
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indicates that was his hometown, making Montanus the first person from the
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officer of the same tribe as he, who served in the late Augustan period.
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His inscription also attests that Montanus was a member of the
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Syme further identifies Montanus with "the slow fat senator of
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The role of the office itself is discussed by J. R. Jones,
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in a senatorial career is discussed by A.R. Birley,
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Index

Roman
suffect consul
Lucius Julius Vettius Paullus
Alexandria Troas
Greek
Roman senate
Juvenal
Ronald Syme
equestrian
tresviri aere argento auro flando feriundo
military tribune
Legio V Macedonica
quaestor
Bithynia et Pontus
plebeian tribune
praetor
Nero
Vespasian
Sicily
Titii sodales
patron




AE
1973, 500


AE

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