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Q. Cerellius Apollinaris, Praefectus Vigilum in A.D. 212

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

J. M. Reynolds
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The inscription of Q. Cerellius Apollinaris transcribed below is in the garden of the Casale Santa Cornelia, in the territory of ancient Veii. When it was found and where, except that it was on the Santa Cornelia estate, are both uncertain. It may have come from a tomb in the area—in which case Apollinaris presumably owned property there; but much the most likely findspot is the eighth-century church and estate centre of Capracorum, from which a number of ancient stones at the Casale derive. The site of Capracorum, founded by Pope Adrian I in c. 780, has recently been identified on the Santa Cornelia estate and is in the course of excavation by the British School at Rome. A considerable quantity of the building material used there was demonstrably brought from Rome, and there is a real possibility that this piece, too, came from the city rather than from the neighbourhood.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 30 , November 1962 , pp. 31 - 32
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1962

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References

1 Liber Pontificalis (ed. Duchesne, ), I, p. 501 fGoogle Scholar.

2 For Italian officers in the praetorian guard after the reform of Severus, see e.g. Passerini, A., Le coorti pretorie (Roma, 1939), p. 172Google Scholar, and Pflaum, H. G.Les procurateurs équestres sous le haut-empire remain (Paris, 1950), p. 262Google Scholar.

3 PIR 2 C, 666, 667, 668; see SHA, V. Severi, 13, 6.

4 See Pflaum, loc. cit.

5 For the third-century tendency to omit posts of lesser importance, see Pflaum, op. cit., p. 265.

6 Pflaum, op. cit., pp. 253–254.

7 Pflaum, op. cit., pp. 238–239 for the second century, p. 276 for the third.

8 There are a number of third-century instances of promotion to a trecenarial post after only one of ducenarial grade, see Pflaum, op. cit., p. 280.

9 Pflaum, op. cit., p. 237 for the second century, p. 263 for the third.

10 In the early years of Severus's reign in particular there were no doubt many opportunities calling for devotion to the new regime; a specific occasion rather later might be the fall of Plautianus in 205.

11 Apollinaris is attested as praefectus vigilum on 13 April, 212, see CIL, VI, 1063; his last known predecessor is attested on 4 April, 211, see Eph. Ep., VII, 1207, and he had already been in office for at least a year, see CIL, VI, 1058, 1059.