Titus Curtilius Mancia

Titus Curtilius Mancia was a Roman senator, who held several offices in the emperor's service during the middle of the first century. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of November to December 55 as the colleague of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus.[1] No other senator with his gentilicium is known, so Mancia seems to have been a homo novus.[2]

His origins are not known for sure; however, there are several indications that he came from Gallia Narbonensis. At this time several senators came from this province, probably due to the influence of Nero's advisor, Sextus Afranius Burrus. In addition, his daughter married Gnaeus Domitius Lucanus, a member of the Narbonensian aristocracy.[3] His granddaughter, Domitia Lucilla Major, was, through her eponymous daughter, grandmother of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.[4][5]

  1. ^ Paul A. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", Classical Quarterly, 24 (1974), p.
  2. ^ Ronald Syme, "Personal Names in Annals I-VI", Journal of Roman Studies, 39 (1949), pp. 6–18.
  3. ^ Werner Eck, Die Statthalter der germanischen Provinzen im 1.–3. Jahrhundert (Köln/Bonn: Rheinland-Verlag in Kommission bei Rudolf Habelt, 1985), p. 25 ISBN 3-7927-0807-8
  4. ^ Jo-Ann Shelton (2013). The Women of Pliny's Letters. Routledge. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-415-37428-6.
  5. ^ Jacqueline M. Carlon (22 June 2009). Pliny's Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-521-76132-1.