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Just a point of interest, if in 66 AD C. Suetonius Paullinus was elected consul for the second time, when was his first consulship and who was his co-consul? Please quote the sources in your answer.

He is called vetustissimus consularium by Tacitus (Histories 2.37.1) in a context that suggests a consulship before Claudius' British campaign. That is all there is, according to the Neue Pauly.

Ave Jona,

Thank you very much for the information.

My Latin translator says that vetustissimus consularium is roughly, "of long-standing consular rank". Is that how you read it?

I wonder how old C. Seutonius Paullinus was when appointed to Britannia as the Imperial Governor, in his early to mid-50s perhaps? I see that he fought in the civil war after Nero's death in 68/69?

Vale

M. Spedius Corbulo