Gens:

POLLIENUS or POLLENIUS

Created:

4th February 2018

Update:

4th February 2018

Status Republic:

Patrician:

Pleb. Nobilis:

Senatorial:

Eques Romanus:

Local magistrates

Republican Family / Cognomen

Patrician

n/a

Pleb. Nobilis

n/a

Senatorial

n/a

Equestrian

n/a

Local magistrat.

n/a

Uncertain

n/a

Imperial Family / Cognomen

Imperators

n/a

Consular

Auspex, Peregrinus,

Senatorial

Sebennus,

Equestrian

n/a

Equestrian (mil)

no cognomen,

Local magistrat.

n/a

Uncertain

n/a

Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors

n/a

Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars)

incl. 0 emperors

Notes:

Dating of careers is uncertain. One theory holds with the approximate dates given in the stemma below (cf PIR, following Stein in 1896), with the age gap between

P538 (cos c.185) and P536 (cos 244) being explained by a late adoption; another theory (Alföldy) holds that P538 is identical to P539 and the career of P538

is to be moved forward a generation. See alternative stemma below.

The post iudex ex delegatione Caesaris, held by two consulars, is a judicial deputy (judge of appeals) of the emperor in Rome. Auspex maior's post probably

when Marcus and Commodus were fighting the Germans and Sarmatians. Minor's iudex dating is disputed: Commodus, Septimius Severus or Alexander Severus.

The gentilicium is normally spellt Pollienus rather than Pollenius (the Greek version).

Literature

Alföldy: Fasti Hispanienses (1969) p.53-56 (Iulius Pollienus Auspex; Alföldy combines P538 and P539 into one man, and moves the governorship of Moesia Inf

dated 194-196 to Auspex maior. Iulius Pollienus Auspex becomes the father of Pollienus Armenius Peregrinus cos ord 244)

Alföldy: Konsulat (1977) p.204, 227 (Auspex maior P537)

Birley: Roman Government of Britain (2005) p.348-351 favors that Auspex minor is the same man as Iulius Pollienus Auspex.

Birley: "The Governors of Numidia, AD 193-268", in JRS vol.40, 1950, p.63 (§9 Ti. Iulius Pollienus Auspex P539; dates governorship to c.217-220)

Boteva, Dilyana: "Legati Augusti pro praetore Moesiae inferioris A.D. 193-217/218", in ZPE Bd. 110 (1996), pp. 240-241 dates P538's governorship to

193/4-195 based on coin evidence (not 196 or 197 as previously believed)

Dietz: Senatus (1980) p.200-202 (§66 Ti. Pollenius Armenius Peregrinus cos 244) with stemma p.371 following the stemma in PIR.

Egger, Rudolf: "Ein neuer Statthalter der Provinz Dalmatien", in JÖAI (Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes, Beiblatt), 19/20,

1919, p.311-314 discusses the careers of P537 and P538.

Fitz, Jeno: "Die Laufbahn der Statthalter in der römischen Provinz Moesia Inferior", Weimar, 1966, p.27-28 on the governorship 194-196 which he assigns P538.

Fitz Alba Regia 12, 1972, p.242-243

Jagenteufel: Dalmatia (1958) p.69-72 (§21 Pollenius Auspex P537)

Leunissen: Konsuln (1989) p.139-140, p.231, 236-7, 247-8,250, 352-3 (career of P538); he prefers the old stemma with Auspex minor cos.suff c.185),

p.176, 276,359 (career of P539), p.272 (Sebennus P540), p.214, 319(career of P537)

Mennen: Power and Status (2010) p.99-101 (the members of the Pollenii or Pollieni)

Piso: Fasti Daciae (1993) p.186-192 (§41 Ti. Iulius Pollienus Auspex P539, who he identifies with P538, thus moving all offices forward:

Numidia 212/217 cos suff 212/217 Moesia Sup 222-225 Dacia 225-227 Hisp Cit 227-230 Brit 230/235

Piso believes Pollienus is the correct form and the family derives from Gaul.

Remy: Carrieres Senatoriales (1989) p.322-323 (§274 Ti. Pollenius Armenius Peregrinus cos ord 244)

Scheid: Freres Arvales 69-304 (1990) p.102-103, 427-430 (Pollenius Auspex maior P537)

Stein, A: "Zwei lykische Inschriften", in AEM (Archäologisch-epigraphische Mitteilungen aus Österreich-Ungarn) Bd.19, (1896) p.147-150

gives the original inscription from Xanthos in Lycia describing Pollenia Honorata's family. (see also ILS8841)

Stein: Dazien (1944) p.68-69 (Pollenius Auspex minor P538, he sets his governorship of Dacia to 225/230 and identifies him with P539).

Stein: Moesien (1940) p.82-84 (assigns the governorship of Moesia Inf of 193-197 to Auspex maior P537; Pollenius Auspex newer scholars prefer his son Auspex minor P538)

Suolahti, Jaakko: Junior Officers (1955) p.316, 381 (Cn. Pollienus)

Thomasson: Fasti Africani (1996) p.76-77 (§98 Pollienus Auspex P537 procos Africa c.186/197), p.180-181 (§57 Ti. Iulius Pollienus Auspex P539

governor of Numidia under Caracalla or Elegabal)

Thomasson: SPQR (1975) p.56-60 (P537, P538, P536, P539)

Winkler: Reichsbeamten von Noricum (1969) p.89-93 (§3 Pollienus Sebennus P540)

Changes

REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL

Dem50 PME.P49

Cn. Pollienus Cn.f.

inscription at Thermae Himeraea, Sicilia (founded 21 BC by veterans of legio XII)

tr mil legio XII

P537 RE2 Rüpke2743

RE1

(Pollienus)

(Ti.?) Pollenius (or Pollienus) Auspex mai

Pollienus Auspex

cos suff c.170/175 leg Aug pro pr Dalmatia c.173/175

frat Arv by c.180 still frat Arv 204

iudex vice sacra ex delegatione Caesarum c.176/180

likely = P537 or possibly his son P538

XV vir sf, praef alimentorum viarum Appiae et Flaminiae III c.177/180

procos Africa c.190/195, frat Arv (?)

ment 208

P540

RE5

P538

RE3

A1059

Pollienus Sebennus

(Ti.?) Pollenius (or Pollienus) Auspex min

L. Armenius Peregrinus

witness vs aedil Baebius Marcellinus

cos suff sub Commodus c.185

pr 213 cos suff an inc ?

who was exc 205

iudex vice sacra ex delegatione Caesaris

frat Arv

leg Aug pro pr Noricum 205/6-208

leg Aug pro pr Hisp Cit c.186/189

saved by his uncle from

Tres Dacia c.190/192 Moesia Inf 193/4-195

prosecution 208

Brit Sup 198/200 frat Arv ?

test adopt post 220

P539 RE Poll1(RE Jul396)

P536

RE4

A1060

Ti. Iulius Pollienus Auspex

Ti. Pollenius Armenius Peregrinus

Armenius Titianus

clar vir,

clar vir, procos Lycia et Pamph c.242/243

frat Arv 240

leg Aug pro pr Numidia 212/222

cos ord 244 procos Asia ????

cos suff in absentia 212/222

or adopted son of P539

praeses rarissimus, innocentissimus,

~ (Flavia Iulia), F297, dt of

Flavius Iulius Latronianus

cos suff c.225C/230 PUR 238/243

P541

RE6

(Pollenia) Honorata

ALTERNATIVE STEMMA