Marcus Vettulenus Civica Barbarus
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Marcus Vettulenus Civica Barbarus was a Roman senator of the second century AD. A member of the Patrician class, he held the office of consul ordinarius in 157 with another patrician, Marcus Metilius Aquillius Regulus, as his colleague.[1] Barbarus was also a member of the sodales Antoniniani, a religious fraternity which attended to the cult of the emperor Antoninus Pius.[2]
The Vettuleni were an Italian family, likely from Sabinum.[3] Barbarus himself was the half-brother of Lucius Aelius, the biological father of the Emperor Lucius Verus; they shared the same mother, Plautia. While the identity of Lucius Aelius' father is certain (Lucius Ceionius Commodus, the consul ordinarius of 106), the authorities differ on the identity of Barbarus' father. Ronald Syme notes that a Greek inscription from Argos that attests to his filiation as "Sex. f.", and his tribe as "Quirna",[4] but little more is known of his father. Géza Alföldy asserts he was the son of Sextus Vettulenus Civica Pompeianus, the consul ordinarius of 136,[5] while Anthony Birley states Civica Pompeius was another half-brother of Barbarus and their shared father was Sextus Vettulenus Civica Cerialis, the consul ordinarius of 106.[6]