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Vir Consularis Ordinarius Lucius Petronius Taurus Volusianus | |
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Born | Etruria (?) |
Died | 268 AD (?) Rome? |
Cause of death | Murdered (?) |
Nationality | Etruscan (?) |
Citizenship | Roman |
Occupation(s) | Soldier and Imperial functionary |
Employer | Emperor Gallienus |
Title | Prefect of Vigiles, 259 (?), Praetorian Prefect, 260-6 (?), Consul Ordinarius (with Gallienus), 261, Praefectus Urbi, 267-8 |
Predecessor | (As Praefectus Urbi) Aspasius Paternus |
Successor | (As Praefectus Urbi) Flavius Antiochianus |
Children | Lucius Publius Petronius Volusianus (?) |
Lucius Petronius Taurus Volusianus (died c.286 AD) was a Roman citizen, apparently of equestrian origins, whose career in the Imperial Service in the mid-Third Century AD carried him from a relatively modest station in life to the highest public offices and senatorial status in a very few years.[1] He may have secured his first appointments before the Licinian Dynasty – (Valerian and his son Gallienus) – acceded to the Empire in 253 AD, but it was in the course of their reign that his upward progress achieved an almost unprecedented momentum and the second factor seems to have been a consequence of the first. The nature of his relationship to the Licinii is uncertain, but it seems likely that a common origin in the Etruscan region of central Italy at least predisposed Gallienus in his favour and he seems to have been that emperor's most trusted servant and adviser during the period of his sole reign - 260(?)-268 AD.