Sextus_Catius_Clementinus_Priscillianus

Sextus Catius Clementinus Priscillianus

Sextus Catius Clementinus Priscillianus

Roman military officer and consul in 230

Sextus Catius Clementinus Priscillianus (fl. 3rd century AD) was a Roman military officer and senator who was appointed consul in AD 230.

Biography

Catius Clementinus was a member of the third century gens Catia, and it has been speculated that he may have been the son of either Publius Catius Sabinus (consul in AD 216), or a [Catius? Lepi]dus I[—], a suffect consul sometime during the early third century.[1]

Catius Clementinus’ early career is unknown, but in AD 230, he was made consul ordinarius alongside Lucius Virius Agricola, which is attested by a military diploma.[2] In the following year (AD 231), he was appointed Legatus Augusti pro praetore (or imperial governor) of Germania Superior, which is attested by an inscription.[3] Probably from 236/237 until 238/239 he was governor of Cappadocia, where he is attested by an inscription[4] on a miliarium.[5]

Catius Clementinus may have been the brother of Gaius Catius Clemens, suffect consul about AD 235 and Lucius Catius Celer, suffect consul about AD 241.

Sources

  • Mennen, Inge, Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 (2011)

References

  1. [1]
    Mennen, pg. 93
  2. [2]
    CIL XVI, 144
  3. [3]
    CIL XIII, 11758
  4. [4]
    CIL III, 6924
  5. [5]
    Bernard Rémy, Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.), (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), p. 239
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