Sextus Pompeius Collega

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Sextus Pompeius Collega was a Roman senator and orator active during the last half of the first century AD. He was ordinary consul for 93 with Quintus Peducaeus Priscinus as his colleague.[1] He was the son of Gnaeus Pompeius Collega, suffect consul in 71.

Collega is best known from Pliny the Younger's account in his Epistulae about the corruption trial of , the former proconsular governor of Africa. When the trial had moved to the penalty stage, Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus proposed that Priscus be punished with a fine of 700,000 sesterces and exile from Rome and Italy; Collega not only expressed his agreement with this penalty, but proposed that the fine be paid into the treasury.[2] When his version of the proposal failed to gain support, Collega complained about the faithlessness of the senators who encouraged him to make his proposal, who included Marcus Aquilius Regulus.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Werner Eck, "Diplome, Konsuln und Statthalter: Fortschritte und Probleme der kaiserzeitlichen Prosopographie", Chiron, 34 (2004), pp. 35-44.
  2. ^ Pliny, Epistulae, II.20.20
  3. ^ Pliny, Epistulae, II.20.22
Political offices
Preceded byas suffect consuls Consul of the Roman Empire
93
with Quintus Peducaeus Priscinus 		Succeeded byas suffect consuls
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