Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola

Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola Messalla[1] (c. 10 – aft. 59) was a Roman Senator. Messalla was ordinary consul in AD 48 as the colleague of the future emperor Vitellius.[2]

Biography

Based on the elements of his cognomen Popicola Messalla, Ronald Syme suggested that Vipstanus Poplicola was the son of Lucius Vipstanus Gallus and a postulated Valeria Messallia, the granddaughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.[3] He completed his consulate in July 48, and was succeeded by the consul suffectus Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus, who has been suggested to have been his brother.[4]

For the term 58/59, the sortition awarded Vipstanus Poplicola Proconsular governor of Asia.[5]

According to Syme, Vipstanus Poplicola's son was Gaius Valerius Poplicola, who was co-opted into a sacerdotal college in AD 63, but is not heard of afterwards, possibly having died before being old enough to accede to the consulate.[6]

See also

References
  1. Morgan, Gwyn, 69 A.D.: The Year Of Four Emperors (2006), p. 283
  2. Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 409, 425
  3. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 241
  4. Christian Settipani. Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000
  5. Laale, Hans Willer, Ephesus (Ephesos): An Abbreviated History from Androclus to Constantine XI (2011), p. 198
  6. CIL VI, 2002; Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, p. 242 n. 119
Political offices
Preceded by
Gnaeus Hosidius Geta,
and Gaius Volasenna Severus
as Suffect consuls		 Consul of the Roman Empire
48
with Aulus Vitellius		 Succeeded by
Quintus Veranius Nepos, and
Gaius Pompeius Longus Gallus
as Suffect consuls
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