Lucius Attius Macro
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Lucius Attius Macro was a Roman senator and general, who was active during the early second century. He was suffect consul in the later part of AD 134 as the colleague of Publius Licinius Pansa.[1] He is known entirely from inscriptions.
After serving as praetor, Macro was legatus legionis or commander of two Roman legions: Legio I Adiutrix, which was stationed at Brigetio in Pannonia Superior;[2] and Legio VII Gemina, which was stationed in Hispania Tarraconensis.[3] Senators rarely commanded more than one legion in their career; in compiling a list of all men known to have commanded two or more, Anthony Birley identified only thirty-three men.[4] Attius Macro is also attested as governor of Pannonia Inferior immediately before he acceded to the consulate;[5] Werner Eck dates his tenure in that province from the year 130 to 134.[6]
After he stepped down from the consulate, the life of Attius Macro is a blank.