Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus
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Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Trajan. He was suffect consul in the year 115, replacing the consul Marcus Pedo Vergilianus killed by an earthquake in Antioch.[1]
Hadrianus was descended from a wealthy Syrian family; Géza Alföldy has identified two of his relatives active in that province, one the patron of Heliopolis (modern Baalbek), the other a prominent citizen of Beirut.[2] He is known to have had at least one son, Titus Statilius Maximus, consul in 144.[3]
Only a few steps in his cursus honorum are known. Ronald Syme states that he is "probably" the Statilius Severus, a military tribune assigned to an unknown legion, to whom Trajan addressed a rescript concerning a soldier's testament.[4]
The other appointment Hadrianus is known to have received was governor of Thracia; he is mentioned as the governor succeeding Publius Juventius Celsus on a military diploma dated 19 July 114.[5] Werner Eck dates the tenure of Hadrianus in Thracia from the years 112 to 115, admitting to the possibility that Hadrianus may have been consul in absentia.[6]
His life after his suffect consulate is a blank.