Titus Aius Sanctus
Titus Aius Sanctus was a Roman eques, who was later promoted to senatorial rank. Sanctus was consul suffectus around 185.[1]
Fergus Millar speculates that he was Commodus' teacher of rhetoric, whom the Historia Augusta calls Ateus or Attius Sanctus.[2]
An inscription on a cippus found at Rome provides the later portion of his cursus honorum.[3] The first attested appointment Sanctus held was ab epistulis Graecis or secretary of his Greek language correspondence; according to Millar this post formed part of the immediate entourage of the emperor.[4] This was followed by an appointment as procurator rationis privatae,[5] which was followed by promotion to a rationibus, the top post in the imperial secretariat. Sanctus was then appointed praefectus or governor of Roman Egypt; Giudo Bastiani dates his tenure from 179 to 180.[6]
At some point after he returned from Egypt, Aius Sanctus was adlected inter praetores by the emperor Commodus into the Senate. He is next attested as praefectus aerari, then procurator alimentorum. Then he acceded to the consulate.
References
- Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 139
- Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (Cornell:University Press, 1992), p. 105
- CIL VI, 41118
- Millar, Emperor in the Roman World, p. 227
- Information on this position is collected by Millar, Emperor in the Roman World, pp. 625-630
- Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), pp. 299f
Further reading
- Hans-Georg Pflaum, Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire romain (Paris, 1960), No. 178
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Titus Pactumeius Magnus |
Prefectus of Aegyptus 179-180 |
Succeeded by Titus Flavius Piso |