Gaius Oppius Sabinus

Gaius Oppius Sabinus (died AD 85) was a Roman Senator who held at least one office in the emperor's service. He was ordinary consul in the year 84 as the colleague of emperor Domitian.^[1]

Sabinus was probably the son or nephew of Spurius Oppius, suffect consul in the nundinium of October-December 43. Following his consulate, Oppius Sabinus acceded to governor of the imperial province of Moesia. He served in this position for only a few months when an army of Dacians under Diurpaneus crossed the Danube and invaded the province. Sabinus was killed in the winter of 85/86 AD fighting the invaders.^[2]

Administration of the province fell upon one of the legionary legates, until the new governor, Marcus Cornelius Nigrinus, could arrive. Meanwhile the Dacians ravaged the province and burned a number of forts along the Danube. Domitian, accompanied by his praetorian prefect Cornelius Fuscus, quickly traveled to Moesia with reinforcements to drive the Dacians out of Roman territories; these were the opening moves of Domitian's Dacian War.^[3]

References[]

^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 190, 216
^ Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, "Domitian" 6,1.
^ Brian W. Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 137f

Further reading[]

Mócsy, András (1974) Pannonia and Upper Moesia, Routledge, 1974
Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) ² O 122

Political offices
Preceded by Lucius Calventius Sextus Carminius Vetus, and Marcus Cornelius Nigrinus Curiatius Maternus as suffect consuls	Consul of the Roman Empire 84 with Domitian X	Succeeded by Lucius Julius Ursus, and ignotus as suffect consuls

[1] Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 190, 216

[2] Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, "Domitian" 6,1.

[3] Brian W. Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 137f

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