Lollianus

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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.

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