Marcus Acilius Priscus Egrilius Plarianus
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Marcus Acilius Priscus Egrilius Plarianus was a Roman senator, who held a number of imperial appointments during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. Mireille Corbier considers him the best known of the Egrilii Plariani, due to the large number of inscriptions referring to him.[1]
The senator was born a member of the Egrilii Plariani, a prominent family of Ostia; in his monograph of naming practices in the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Olli Salomies speculates he was born Quintus Egrilius A.f.[2] His father was Aulus Egrilius Rufus, a prominent decurion of Ostia, attested as duovir and flamen Romae et Augusti; his mother was Plaria Q.f. Vera; his brother was Aulus Egrilius Plarianus suffect consul in AD 128.[3] The name elements "Acilius Priscus" were long suspected as coming from adoption; the discovery in 1938 of the base of a statue of Marcus Acilius Priscus, another duovir of Ostia and flamen Romae et Augusti, allowed H. Bloch to identify the adoptive father.[4]