Gens: VERANIUS
Created: 24th January 2016
Update:  24th January 2019
Status Republic: Patrician:     Pleb. Nobilis:       Senatorial:      Eques Romanus:      Local magistrate  
Republican Family / Cognomen
Patrician n/a
Pleb. Nobilis n/a
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian n/a
Local magistrat. n/a
Uncertain no cognomen
Imperial Family / Cognomen
Imperators n/a
Consular no cognomen
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian n/a
Equestrian (mil) n/a
Local magistrat. Hypsaeus, Rufus, various in Lycia
Uncertain Flaccus
Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors 0
Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars) 1 incl. 0 emperors
Notes: The later Veranii from Lycia descend from men who received Roman citizenship from Lycia's first governor Q. Veranius.
Rtz refers to Reitzenstein.
Literature Birley: Government of Britain p.37-43 (Q. Veranius cos 49)
Cebeillac: Quaestores Principes p.40-43 (§XVIII Q. Veranius cos 49)
Christol, Michel and Drew-Bear, Thomas: "Un sénateur de Xanthos", in Journal des savants, 1991, pp. 195-226 on the Veranii from Lycia
Gordon, A.E.: "Quintus Veranius consul A.D. 49" in University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology, 2/5, 1952, pp.231-352
reconstructing Veranius' career from inscription AE1953-251. See Remy for discussion of Gordon's reconstruction of inscription.
Mouritsen: Pompeian Epigraphy (1988) p.109, 112 (C. Veranius Rufus), p.111,155 (L. Veranius Hypsaeus)
Reitzenstein, Denise: "Die lykischen Bundespriester: Repräsentation der kaiserzeitlichen Elite Lykiens", (KLIO Beihefte - Neue Folge 17), Berlin 2011
p.178-179 (§22 Veranius Priscianus, RE14), p.188-189 (§37 Q. Veranius Eudemos from Xanthos, RE8), p.203-204 (§53 Q. Veranius Tlepolemos
from Xanthos, RE16), p209 (§62.1 Marcia Tlepolemis and her husband §62 Ti. Claudius Stasithemis II), p.209 (§63 Sex. Veranius Priscus, 
note tribus. Quirina from his mother Marcia, deriving from the governor Sex. Marcius Priscus, who was trib. Quirina) , p.235-236 (§111
Veranius Iason, RE12), plus stemma p.245
Remy: Carrieres Senatoriales p.179-180 (§151 Q. Veranius V388) and p.279-281 (§229 Q. Veranius cos 49)
Syme, R.: "The Origin of the Veranii", in Classical Quarterly, Vol. 7, 1957, pp. 123-125 (also in Roman Papers Vol.1, p.333-334)
doubts the Veranii came from Verona, suggests Forum Novum in ager Sabinus, in tribus Clustumina.
Changes 2019.01.24 added Octavia as possible wife to cos 49 AD, added references to Reitzenstein, added more literature
not in RE V387 RE1
Q. Veranius Veranius Veranius
? = Catulus' friend friend of Catulus writer on pontifical questions
on staff of procos L.Calpurnius Piso (cos 58)  late republic
in Macedonia c.55
  ? = RE1
REPUBLIC  
IMPERIAL                                                    
 
 
V390 PME-V65bis V391 RE10
Q. Veranius Q.f. Veranius Flaccus
tr mil leg IV Macedonica or IV Scythica c.40/30 BC writer critized by Augustus
acting guardian of Drusus (father of Germanicus) ? = RE1
pro legato in Germania sub Augustus (12-9 BC under Drusus ?)
 
V388 RE2 Rüpke3456
Q. Veranius
comes of Germanicus in the East 18
organized as legatus the new province of Cappadocia (thus ex-praetor) 18-19
prosecuted Piso for the murder of Germanicus 19-20
received priesthood as reward 20, prosecuted ? L. Piso 24
 
LP14-4 LP30-1
V389 RE3 Rüpke3457 RE11
Q. Veranius Q.f. L. Veranius Hypsaeus C. Veranius Q.f. Rufus
trib.Clu. II vir iure dicundo at Pompeii 58-59 II vir at Pompeii sub Nero or Flavians
* c.12 monet, tr mil leg IV Scythica in Moesia , q Caesar 37 tr pl 41 2 x II vir iure dic quinq
(pr 42?), 1st leg Aug pro pr Lycia-Pamph  43-47/8, cos ord 49
augur 49, patrician 49
curator aedium sacrorum et operum locorumque publicorum,
praef of games 57, leg Aug pro pr Brit 57-58 † 58
? ~ (Octavia, FOS584), ? dt of C. Octavius Laenas, cos suff 33
 
V393 FOS789 V392 RE19 FOS788 FOS787
Verania Octavilla Verania Gemina (Verania) ?
†aged 6 yrs † c.96/100 a possibility judging from Veranianus' cognomen
~ L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus ~ Ser.Cornelius Dolabella Petronianus
imp GALBA's heir 69 † 69 murdered cos ord 86
 
PME-V65a C1352
Q. Veranius Eudemus Veranius [Cornelius Dola]bella Veranianus
his nomen Veranius derives from praef coh in Brit c.97-102/3 attested 105
Q. Veranius V389 above as governor
 
RE8 Rtz37
Q. Veranius Eudemi f. Eudemos
trib. Clustumina from Xanthos,
probably archireus Lycian federation 126/129
secretary of the Lycian federation
 
  RE16 Rtz53 RE14 Rtz22
Q. Veranius Q.f. Eudemos     Q. Veranius Q.f. Eudemus Tlepolemos Veranius Priscianus
prytana of Xanthos, trib. Clustumina from Xanthos, archireus Lycian federation sub Trajan/Hadrian,
priest at Xanthos, archireus Lycian federation 149 or in 143 ?
gymnasiarch, secretary of the Lycian federation
~ (Marcia)
 
Rtz63 Rtz62.1
Sex. Veranius Q.f. Priscus alias Eudemos   Marcia Tlepolemis
trib.Qui. ab Xanthos in Lycia archiereia of Lycian federation
archireus Lycian federation 138/180 ~ Ti. Claudius Stasithemis II (Rtz62)
secretary of the Lycian federation archireus Lycian federation 138/180
   
  Rtz73
Veranius Priscianus Ti. Claudius Telemachus Q. Veranius Ptolemaios
tr mil leg IV Scythica
archireus Lycian federation by 186/187
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senators  
RE12 Rtz111
Q. Veranius Q.f. Jason  
trib.Clu.? from Sidyma
archireus Lycian federation 150/250
UNKNOWN DATE