Person "Aurelius Masculus, M."

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Id 1180
Person id-code Aurelius Masculus 001
Name Aurelius Masculus, M.
Gender male
Gentilicia AURELIA
Cognomina Masculus
Tribus
Name comments
Free text (when person flourished)
Post quem (when person flourished) 224 AD
Ante quem (when person flourished) 276 AD
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Geography notes
Legal status ingenuus
Servile affiliation
Citizen status civis romanus
Local citizenship or ethinicity
Ordo affiliation ordo equester
Highest civic rank praeses provinciae
Honorary civic status
Honorary positions
Apparitor
Apparitorial Rank
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Military Rank
Status notes and comments CIL 05, 07881
Arnauld 2007

cursus honorum and dignities
praeses provinciae Alpium Maritimarum
patronus trium collegiorum Cemenelensium

Masculus was governor of the Alpes Maritimae probably under Decius. He was an important public benefactor of Cemenelum. He helped the city during a food crisis ('urgentis annonae') and restored an aqueduct. (249-251 CE)