Gaius Julius Aquila
Gaius Julius Aquila was the name of a number of people who lived during the Roman Empire.
Prefect of Egypt
[edit]Gaius Julius Aquila was a praefectus of Roman Egypt between 10 CE and 11.[1][2]
Governor of Bythinia et Pontus
[edit]Gaius Julius Aquila was a Roman knight, stationed with a few cohorts, in 45 CE, to protect Tiberius Julius Cotys I, king of the Bosporan Kingdom, who had received the sovereignty after the expulsion of Tiberius Julius Mithridates. In the same year, Aquila obtained the praetorian insignia.[3] He also erected a monument honouring the emperor Claudius in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) known as the Kuşkayası Monument.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), p. 269
- ^ AE 1905, 39 = ILS 9370
- ^ Tacitus, Annals 12.15, 21
- ^ CIL III, 321 = ILS 5883
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Aquila, Gaius Julius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 252.