05-12-2009, 05:13 AM
Interesting. We do have evidence of an -anus name being used in that person's lifetime, however, so I don't think it was only used posthumusly.
The Loeb edition of the Letters of Fronto goes on to mention an inscription (C.I.L. vi. 8588; cp. viii. 997) by the wife of this Pompeianus, Fuficia Clymena to Q. Saenius Pompeianus as conductor IIII publicorum Africae, farmer of four public revenues of Africa.
The daughter of Marcus, Lucilla, also married another Pompeianus after the death of the co-emperor Lucius. According to Birley, this Pompeianus was certainly not adopted - he was the son of a wealthy knight of Antioch. (page 161 of his biography; he cites the Historia Augusta 20.6).
Quote:To my Lord.
Saenius Pompeianus, whom I have defended in many cases, since he took up the contract for farming the taxes of Africa, is from many causes a stand-by in my affairs...
Letter of Fronto to Marcus Aurelius, Ad M. Caes. v. 34 (49) (Naber, p. 86)
The Loeb edition of the Letters of Fronto goes on to mention an inscription (C.I.L. vi. 8588; cp. viii. 997) by the wife of this Pompeianus, Fuficia Clymena to Q. Saenius Pompeianus as conductor IIII publicorum Africae, farmer of four public revenues of Africa.
The daughter of Marcus, Lucilla, also married another Pompeianus after the death of the co-emperor Lucius. According to Birley, this Pompeianus was certainly not adopted - he was the son of a wealthy knight of Antioch. (page 161 of his biography; he cites the Historia Augusta 20.6).
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