Aulus Caecilius Faustinus

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Aulus Caecilius Faustinus
Military diploma AE 2004, 1256, dated May 13th 105, attesting him as governor
suffect consul

Aulus Caecilius Faustinus was a Roman senator active during the reign of Trajan. He was suffect consul for the nundinium starting in August AD 99 as the colleague of Quintus Fabius Barbarus Valerius Magnus Julianus.[1] Faustinus is known primarily from inscriptions.

The cursus honorum of Faustinus is incomplete; only two of the offices he held are documented, both after he was consul. The first was as governor of Moesia Inferior, which he held from 103 to 105, when Trajan's Second Dacian War broke out.[2] Faustinus was immediately replaced as governor by Lucius Fabius Justus, who is known to have had more military experience.

The second office Faustinus is recorded as having held was proconsular governor of Africa in 115/116,[3] a position considered the pinnacle of a successful senatorial career. His life after he left the province is unknown.

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  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 467
  2. ^ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 339f
  3. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", p. 359
Political offices
Preceded byas suffecti Roman consul
99 (suffect)
with Quintus Fabius Barbarus Valerius Magnus Julianus
Succeeded byas suffecti