Lollianus
Lollianus (sometimes rendered in English as Lollian) is a Roman personal name which may refer to many figures of classical antiquity, including:
- Lollianus (Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus, sometimes called Lollianus Spurius), a general proclaimed emperor by his soldiers in Gaul and very soon murdered; he is one of the "Thirty Tyrants" whose lives are briefly sketched in the Historia Augusta. He is the most important of those sharing the name.
- Lollianus Avitus, consul in 144 AD, reported by the Historia Augusta (Pert. i.5) to have given Pertinax his first career break.
- Q. Flavius Maesius Egnatius Lollianus, consul in 355 AD, who appears in the letters of St. Athanasius
- Q. Hedius Rufus Lollianus Gentianus, son of Lollianus Avitus: according to the Historia Augusta (Pert. vii.7) he dared criticize Pertinax, and got away with it.
- The orator and philosopher Publius Hordeonius Lollianus.
- Lollianus Titianus, a man ordered to arm gladiators at Capua in the last days of Didius Julianus, according to the Historia Augusta (Did.Jul. viii.3).
- St. Lollianus, one of the , crucified with Saint Hipparchus and Philotheus, Abibus, James, Paregrus and Romanus by the emperor Maximian in 297 AD for their refusal to participate in public worship of the Roman gods.
- The author of the (Phoenician Tales).
- A man sentenced to death by the emperor Valentinian I, ostensibly for authoring a book on black magic.
External links[]
- Historia Augusta biographical sketch of the pretender Lollianus
- Seven Martyrs at Samosata, from Butler's Lives of the Saints
Categories:
- Ancient Roman prosopographical lists