Quintus Haterius Antoninus

Quintus Haterius Antoninus or known as Antoninus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Claudius and Nero. He was suffect consul in the year 53 AD as the colleague of Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus.[1]

Antoninus was the only child to Domitia Lepida the Elder and Decimus Haterius Agrippa, consul in 22.[2] His paternal grandfather was the influential orator and senator Quintus Haterius; Ronald Syme suggests that his paternal grandmother was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Caecilia Attica.[3]

By the year 58 Antoninus had squandered his inheritance through extravagances, when emperor Nero gave him a yearly stipend of 500,000 sesterces; Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus and Aurelius Cotta, who had likewise squandered their inheritances, also received yearly stipends from the emperor.[4] According to Seneca the Younger, Haterius Antoninus was considered by some as a professional legacy hunter. [5]

References
  1. Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 409, 425
  2. Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, p. 162
  3. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 145
  4. Tacitus, Annales, xiii.34
  5. Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, 6.38.4.
Political offices
Preceded by
Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix,
and Lucius Salvidienus Rufus Salvianus		 Consul of the Roman Empire
53
with Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus		 Succeeded by
Publius Trebonius, and
Quintus Caecina Primus
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