Quintus Haterius Antoninus or known as Antoninus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Claudius and Nero.

Life

He was suffect consul in the year AD 53 as the colleague of Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus.[1]

Antoninus was the only child to Domitia Lepida the Elder and Decimus Haterius Agrippa, consul in 22.[2] His paternal grandfather was the influential orator and senator Quintus Haterius; Ronald Syme suggests that his paternal grandmother was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Caecilia Attica.[3] Sabina Tariverdieva believes her to be the daughter of Agrippa's sister Vipsania Polla.[4]

By the year 58 Antoninus had squandered his inheritance through extravagances, when emperor Nero gave him a yearly stipend of 500,000 sesterces; Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus and Aurelius Cotta, who had likewise squandered their inheritances, also received yearly stipends from the emperor.[5] According to Seneca the Younger, Haterius Antoninus was considered by some as a professional legacy hunter.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 409, 425.
  2. ↑ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 162.
  3. ↑ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 145.
  4. ↑ "Децим Гатерий Агриппа (Консул 22 Г. Н.э.): Происхождение И Родство С Императорским Домом". Vestnik Drevnei Istorii. 1 (288): 88–101. 2014.
  5. ↑ Tacitus, Annales, xiii.34.
  6. ↑ Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, 6.38.4.
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