Marcus Ulpius Leurus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Septimus Severus and Caracalla.
Life
editHe was suffect consul in some undetermined nundinium in their reigns.[1] He is known entirely from inscriptions, which report little more about his cursus honorum than his consulate.
Leurus had his origins in Thessaly, then part of the province of Macedonia;[2] his gentilicium suggests he is descended from a man who obtained Roman Citizenship in the time of Trajan. Leurus is attested as having married Flavia Habroea; John H. Oliver has traced her paternal lineage, consisting of a number of prominent men of Hypata, for three generations.[3] Together they had a son, Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus, also a suffect consul around the year 230.[1]
Family tree
edit| Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens consul ordinarius | Marcus Pupienus Maximus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quintus Tineius Clemens consul ordinarius | Quintius Tineius Rufus consul 182 | Quintus Tineius Sacerdos consul suffectus ∞ Volusia Laodice | Pupienus Roman Emperor (238) ∞ Sextia Cethegilla | Marcus Ulpius Leurus senator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tineia | Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus consul suffectus | Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus consul ordinarius ∞ Cornelia Marullina | Pupiena Sextia Paulina Cethegilla | Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus suffect consul | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus proconsul ∞ Ovinia Paterna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ a b Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 172
- ^ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 368
- ^ See the stemma at Oliver, "Review of: Die romischen Reichsbeamten von Achaia bis auf Diokletian by Edmund Groag; Die Reichsbeamten von Achaia in spatromischer Zeit by Edmund Groag", American Journal of Philology, 69 (1948), p. 441