Titus Quinctius Crispinus Valerianus

Titus Quinctius Crispinus Valerianus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Augustus. He was suffect consul in the second half of AD 2 as the colleague of Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio.^[1]

Crispinus Valerianus was of Patrician descent, but his familial connections beyond that are unclear. He could be the biological son of a Valerius who was adopted by Titus Quinctius Crispinus Sulpicianus, one of the alleged lovers of Julia the Elder; or the son of a Quinctius Crispinus and a Valeria;^[2] or even the brother of Crispinus Sulpicianus.^[3]

One certain event in his life is the date of his praetorship, which was in 2 BC;^[3] this allows us to infer he acceded to the consulate anno suo, and fixing the year of his birth as 32 BC. We know that he was a member of the Arval Brethren, for inscriptions confirm his presence at their ceremonies from AD 14 through 27.^[4] He likely died before the end of the reign of Tiberius.

References

^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 229
^ ^a ^b Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, p. 158
^ AE 1947, 52, CIL VI, 2023a, CIL VI, 2023b, CIL VI, 6

Political offices
Preceded by Publius Vinicius, and Publius Alfenus Varus as consulares ordinarii	Suffect consul of the Roman Empire AD 2 with Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio	Succeeded by Lucius Aelius Lamia, and Marcus Servilius as consulares ordinarii

[1] Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458

[2] Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 229

[Syme-158-3] Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, p. 158

[4] AE 1947, 52, CIL VI, 2023a, CIL VI, 2023b, CIL VI, 6

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