Titus Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus

Titus Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus was a Roman senator of the second century. He is known to have served as suffect consul in 123 with Gnaeus Sentius Aburnianus as his colleague.[1] He is also attested as proconsul of Africa in 138/139.[2]

The origins of his family are not certain. Although it is clear his family came from Italia, Werner Eck suggests that they came from the town of Tusculum in the Alban Hills, noting that his tribe Papira had members from the area, that Opimianus and his wife were buried there, and that inscriptions bearing the family name have been found there.[3] Further, Eck reconstructs a genealogy for Opimianus that provides him with a father, (Titus ?) Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus, who was procurator of Asia during Trajan's rule, a son, Minicius Opimianus, who was suffect consul in 155, and a grandson, Minicius Opimianus, who was suffect consul in either 186 or 187, then proconsul of Africa in 202/203.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl, "Neue Diplome mit den Namen von Konsuln und Statthaltern," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 187 (2013), pp. 287f
  2. ↑ Eck, "Ergänzungen zu den Fasti Consulares des 1. und 2. Jh.n.Chr.", Historia, 24 (1975), pp. 324-327
  3. 1 2 Eck, "Ergänzungen", p. 327
Political offices
Preceded by
Titus Prifernius Geminus, and
Publius Metilius Secundus
as suffect consuls		 Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
AD 123
with Gnaeus Sentius Aburnianus		 Succeeded by
Manius Acilius Glabrio,
and Gaius Bellicius Flaccus Torquatus Tebanianus
as ordinary consuls
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