Decimus Valerius Asiaticus

Not to be confused with Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (Legatus of Gallia Belgica).
Emperor Claudius has his legate Asiaticus assassinated

Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (around 5 BC[1] – 47 AD,[2][3] Greek: Δέκιμος Οὐαλέριος Ἀσιατικός[1]) was a prominent Roman Senator[4] of provincial origin.[2] Asiaticus was twice consul: first in 35 as suffect consul with Aulus Gabinius Secundus as his colleague;[5] second in 46 as ordinary consul with Marcus Junius Silanus as his colleague.[6] He was the first man from Gaul to be admitted into the Roman Senate, as well as the first man from Gaul to attain the consulship.[7]

  1. ^ a b P.J. Sijpesteijn, "Another οὐσία of Decimus Valerius Asiaticus in Egypt", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 79 (1989), p. 193
  2. ^ a b Alston, Aspects of Roman History AD 14-117, p. 92
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Freisenbruch-131 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Wiseman, Talking to Virgil: A Miscellany, p.75
  5. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 460
  6. ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 408, 425
  7. ^ Ronald Syme, Tacitus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), p. 590