212:, known to be governor of Syria in the 90s. However, Berriman, et al., believe it unlikely that Javolenus Priscus, "known as a jurist and member of Trajan's consilium rather than a military man, could have contemplated a challenge for the throne, much less that he would have remained in favour with Trajan thereafter". More recently
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based in Syria, was appointed to the governorship of Syria. Syria was an important province, and its administration was usually assigned to a senior senator who had previously held the consulate. An appointment like this would only be made in an emergency, when something had happened to the previous
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suggested that "not perhaps a
Cornelius adopting a Curiatius (still less the reverse, as some incautiously assumed), but rather the son of a Curatia. That is, a presumed sister of (C.?) Curiatius Maternus, orator, dramatist, and the central character in the Dialogus of Tacitus." Some authorities have
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wrote to his friend
Quadratus, while recounting an anecdote set during the short reign of the emperor Nerva, Pliny alludes to an unnamed man in charge of a massive army in the eastern part of the empire, about whom there was a lot of gossip, some causing apprehension. It is commonly presumed that
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governor. Any rival to Trajan, upon the latter's ascension to the throne, at the least would have been removed from an imperial position, and at most would have been executed. Whatever his fate, we have no record of
Maternus after AD 97.
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Nigrinus"), is that he was born Cornelius and adopted by a
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Gaius
Octavius Tidius Tossianus Lucius Javolenus Priscus
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