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Marcus Ulpius Leurus

Early 3rd-century Roman politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Marcus Ulpius Leurus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Septimius Severus and Caracalla.

Life

He was suffect consul in some undetermined nundinium in their reigns.[1] He is known entirely from inscriptions, which report little more about his cursus honorum than his consulate.

Leurus had his origins in Thessaly, then part of the province of Macedonia;[2] his gentilicium suggests he is descended from a man who obtained Roman Citizenship in the time of Trajan. Leurus is attested as having married Flavia Habroea; John H. Oliver has traced her paternal lineage, consisting of a number of prominent men of Hypata, for three generations.[3] Together they had a son, Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus, also a suffect consul around the year 230.[1]

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Family tree

Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens
consul ordinarius
Marcus Pupienus Maximus
Quintus Tineius Clemens
consul ordinarius
Quintius Tineius Rufus
consul 182
Quintus Tineius Sacerdos
consul suffectus
∞ Volusia Laodice
Pupienus
Roman Emperor
(238)
∞ Sextia Cethegilla
Marcus Ulpius Leurus
senator
∞ Flavia Habroea
TineiaTitus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus
consul suffectus
Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus
consul ordinarius
∞ Cornelia Marullina
Pupiena Sextia Paulina CethegillaMarcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus
suffect consul
Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus
proconsul
∞ Ovinia Paterna
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