The Career of Dillius Aponianus, Provincial Governor and Consul in the Early Reign of Vespasian
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The career of the senator C. Dillius Aponianus has been handed down only incompletely. In the civil war of 69 he supported the Flavian party as legate of legio III Gallica, which secured him future promotion by Vespasian. In 73 he performed the function of curator riparum et alvei Tiberis, which at that time was usually filled by consulars. Between his legionary command and his consulship, Dillius Aponianus was praetorian governor of a province whose name is omitted in the fragmentary inscription CIL II 7, 275 from Corduba. A likewise fragmentary honorary inscription from Rhodiapolis suggests that the province in question was Pamphylia et Lycia. Aponianus seems to have been the immediate successor of Sex. Marcius Priscus in 70; he was given the task of organising Lycia and Pamphylia as a double province. A later date can be excluded, since with M. Hirrius Fronto Neratius Pansa, Cn. Avidius Celer Rutilius Lupus Fiscilius Firmus and L. Luscius Ocrea the governors of the years 71–76 are known. Dillius Aponianus served both as praetorian governor of Lycia and Pamphylia and as curator riparum et alvei Tiberis for less than a year, which is characteristic of senators promoted by Vespasian in the early Flavian period.
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