Marcus Petronius Mamertinus

Marcus Petronius Mamertinus, possibly known as Sextus Petronius Mamertinus was a Roman senator originally of the Equestrian order. He served as suffect consul in 150 as the colleague of Marcus Cassius Apollinaris.[1]

Edward Champlin has argued that Petronius Mamertinus is a kinsman of the orator Fronto, based on a letter Fronto wrote to Petronius, commending a young man to him, in which Fronto addresses Petronius as a member of "our familia".[2] Champlin writes, "There can be no doubt that here, as elsewhere, familia means precisely family to Fronto."[3] Anthony Birley notes this supports his earlier argument that Petronius had an African origin, and further argues that his postulated wife, Septimia, was a cousin of the future emperor Septimius Severus.[4] On the other hand, Géza Alföldy suggested Petronius had an Italian background, where the cognomen is most common.[5]

Petronius served as Prefect of Egypt during the reign of Hadrian circa 137,[6] then, under Antonius Pius, served as Praetorian prefect in Rome from 139 to 143.[7] Due to his service, Antoninus Pius adlected him to Senatorial rank, qualifying him to be consul.[3]

His wife is believed to have been named Septimia;[4] the pair had two sons: Marcus Petronius Sura Mamertinus, who served as ordinary consul in 182 and married one of the daughters of emperor Marcus Aurelius, Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor;[8] and Marcus Petronius Sura Septimianus who also served as ordinary consul, in 190.[4].

References

  1. ↑ Werner Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013), p. 76
  2. ↑ ad Amicos I.10
  3. 1 2 Champlin, Fronto and Antonine Rome (Harvard: University Press, 1980), p. 10
  4. 1 2 3 Birley, Septimus Severus: the African Emperor, revised edition (New Haven: Yale, 1989), pp. 213, 225
  5. ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 307
  6. ↑ CIL III, 44
  7. ↑ CIL VI, 31147
  8. ↑ Birley, Marcus Aurelius, revised edition (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 182

Further reading

  • Michael Petrus Josephus van den Hout, A commentary on the Letters of M. Cornelius Fronto, 1999
  • Albino Garzetti, From Tiberius to the Antonines: a history of the Roman Empire AD 14-192, 1974
Political offices
Preceded by
[...]mus,
and Gaius Laberius Priscus
as suffect consuls		 Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
150
with Marcus Cassius Apollinaris		 Succeeded by
Sextus Quintilius Condianus,
and Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus
as ordinary consuls
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