Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas (suffect consul)

Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas was a Roman senator of the early Roman Empire, who flourished under the reigns of Nero and Vespasian. He was suffect consul around the year 78.[1]

Asprenas is commonly identified as the son of the senator Asprenas Calpurnius Torquatus.[2] His father was awarded the cognomen "Torquatus" and a golden torque by the emperor Augustus when he fell from his horse in the Trojan Games.[3] As the cognomen was hereditary, it came to be part of Asprenas' name, and appears as part of the names of his descendants.

  1. ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 200
  2. ^ James H. Oliver, "The Senatorial but Not Imperial Relatives of Calpurnia Arria", American Journal of Archaeology, 55 (1951), p. 348
  3. ^ Suetonius, "Augustus", ch. 43