Gaius Vettulenus Civica Cerealis

Gaius Vettulenus Civica Cerealis (died 88) was a Roman senator who held at least one office in the service of the emperor. He was appointed suffect consul in some year between 73 and 76.[1]

Civica Cerialis was of Sabine origin.[2] Ronald Syme speculates that the Sex. Vettulenus Cerialis memorialized with his wife Lusia Galla in an inscription recovered at Venafro was Cerialis' father and mother; if that is the case, his father served as a soldier, and his career was capped as primus pilus of Legio XI.[3]

Following his tenure as suffect consul, Cerealis was appointed governor of the imperial province of Moesia from the year 81 to 84.[4] The sortition allotted him the prestigious public province of Asia for 87/88.[5] During his office, he was confronted with an uprising led by a false Nero at the time of Domitian's Dacian War, but Cerealis failed to suppress the pretender. It is not known if Civica was involved in a conspiracy against the emperor Domitian or if his failure was due to his reluctance to act. In either case, Cerealis was arrested and executed on Domitian's orders.[6][7]

References
  1. Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 210, 219
  2. Brian W. Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 11
  3. Syme, "Antonine Relatives: Ceionii and Vettuleni", Athenaeum, 35 (1957), p. 313 n. 1; CIL X, 4862
  4. Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 305-308
  5. Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", p. 314
  6. Brian W. Jones, "C. Vettulenus Civica Cerialis and the False Nero of AD 88", Athenaeum, 61 (1983), pp. 516-521.
  7. Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, "Domitian", 10
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