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Lucius Attius Macro
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'''Lucius Attius Macro''' was a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[Roman senate|senator]] and general, who was active during the early second century. He was [[Roman consul|suffect consul]] in the later part of AD 134 as the colleague of [[Publius Licinius Pansa]].<ref>[[Werner Eck]], Paul Holder and Andreas Pangerl, [http://ift.tt/2FNh5rq "A Diploma for the Army of Britain in 132 and Hadrian's Return to Rome from the East"], ''[[Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik]]'', 194 (2010), p. 194</ref> He is known entirely from inscriptions.
After serving as [[praetor]], Macro was ''[[legatus]]'' or commander of two [[Roman legion]]s: [[Legio I Adiutrix]], which was stationed at [[Brigetio]];<ref></ref> and [[Legio VII Gemina]], which was stationed in [[Hispania Tarraconensis]].<ref> = ILS 2289</ref> Senators rarely commanded more than one legion in their career; in compiling a list of all men known to have, [[Anthony Birley]] identified only 33 men.<ref>Birley, ''The Fasti of Roman Britain'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 118</ref> Attius Macro is also attested as governor of [[Pannonia Inferior]] immediately before he acceded to the consulate;<ref>[[Ronald Syme]], [http://ift.tt/2CWCAD7 "Governors of Pannonia Inferior"], ''[[Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte]]'', 14 (1965), pp. 351f</ref> [[Werner Eck]] dates his tenure from the year 130 to 134.<ref>Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", ''[[Chiron (journal)|Chiron]]'', 13 (1983), pp. 170f</ref>
After he stepped down from the consulate, the life of Attius Macro is a blank.
== References ==
[[Category:2nd-century Romans]]
[[Category:Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome]]
[[Category:Roman governors of Pannonia Inferior]]
After serving as [[praetor]], Macro was ''[[legatus]]'' or commander of two [[Roman legion]]s: [[Legio I Adiutrix]], which was stationed at [[Brigetio]];<ref></ref> and [[Legio VII Gemina]], which was stationed in [[Hispania Tarraconensis]].<ref> = ILS 2289</ref> Senators rarely commanded more than one legion in their career; in compiling a list of all men known to have, [[Anthony Birley]] identified only 33 men.<ref>Birley, ''The Fasti of Roman Britain'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 118</ref> Attius Macro is also attested as governor of [[Pannonia Inferior]] immediately before he acceded to the consulate;<ref>[[Ronald Syme]], [http://ift.tt/2CWCAD7 "Governors of Pannonia Inferior"], ''[[Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte]]'', 14 (1965), pp. 351f</ref> [[Werner Eck]] dates his tenure from the year 130 to 134.<ref>Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", ''[[Chiron (journal)|Chiron]]'', 13 (1983), pp. 170f</ref>
After he stepped down from the consulate, the life of Attius Macro is a blank.
== References ==
[[Category:2nd-century Romans]]
[[Category:Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome]]
[[Category:Roman governors of Pannonia Inferior]]
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