Quintus_Haterius_Antoninus
Quintus Haterius Antoninus
Roman consul 53 AD
Quintus Haterius Antoninus or known as Antoninus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Claudius and Nero.
He was suffect consul in the year AD 53 as the colleague of Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus.[1]
Antoninus was the only child to Domitia Lepida the Elder and Decimus Haterius Agrippa, consul in 22.[2] His paternal grandfather was the influential orator and senator Quintus Haterius; Ronald Syme suggests that his paternal grandmother was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Caecilia Attica.[3] Sabina Tariverdieva believes her to be the daughter of Agrippa's sister Vipsania Polla.[4]
By the year 58 Antoninus had squandered his inheritance through extravagances, when emperor Nero gave him a yearly stipend of 500,000 sesterces; Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus and Aurelius Cotta, who had likewise squandered their inheritances, also received yearly stipends from the emperor.[5] According to Seneca the Younger, Haterius Antoninus was considered by some as a professional legacy hunter.[6]
- Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 409, 425.
- Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 162.
- Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 145.
- Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, 6.38.4.
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| Preceded by | Consul of the Roman Empire 53 with Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus |
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