Titus Sextius Lateranus (consul 154)

Titus Sextius Lateranus was a Roman senator active in the second century AD. He was ordinary consul in the year 154 as the colleague of Lucius Verus.[1] Lateranus is also known by a more full name, which has been restored in two different ways: Titus Sextius Lateranus M. Vibius Ovel[lius?...] Secundus L. Vol[usius Torquatus?] Vestinus,[2] or Titus Sextius ... M. Vibius Qui[etus?] Secundus L. Vol[usius Torquatus?] Vestinus.[3]

Lateranus was a member of the Roman Republican gens Sextia.[2] He was the son of Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus, consul in 112,[4] by his wife, a noblewoman from the gens Vibia.

The cursus honorum for Lateranus can be reconstructed from an inscription from Rome.[5] That this inscription attests he was a member of the tresviri monetalis, the most prestigious of the four boards that comprised the vigintiviri, and performed his duties as a quaestor for the Emperor indicates he became a member of the patrician order. His status also explains the absence of any office between quaestor and his consulate except for praetor. At an unknown date he was a member of the sodales Hadrianales, a priesthood dedicated to performing rituals honoring the deified emperor Hadrian.[3] He served as a Proconsul of the Province of Africa in 168/169, considered the apex of a successful senatorial career.[6]

Lateranus was the father of Titus Sextius Magius Lateranus, ordinary consul in 197.[7]