- Lollianus
Lollianus (sometimes rendered in English as "Lollian") is a Roman personal name which can refer to many figures of classical antiquity, including:
*Lollianus (Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus, sometimes called Lollianus Spurius), a general proclaimed emperor by his soldiers in Gaul and very soon murdered; he is one of the "Thirty Tyrants" whose lives are briefly sketched in the "
Historia Augusta ". He is the most important of those sharing the name.
*Lollianus Avitus,consul in144 , reported by the "Historia Augusta" ("Pert." i.5) to have givenPertinax his first career break.
*Q. Flavius Maesius Egnatius Lollianus,consul in355 , who appears in the letters of St. Athanasius
*St. Lollianus, one of theSeven Martyrs of Samosata , crucified with Saint Hipparchus and Philotheus, Abibus, James, Paregrus and Romanus by the emperorMaximian in297 for their refusal to participate in public worship of the Roman gods.
*The author of the "Phoinikika " ("Phoenician Tales");
*Q. Hedius Rufus Lollianus Gentianus, son of Lollianus Avitus: according to the Historia Augusta (Pert. vii.7) he dared criticize Pertinax, and got away with it;
*An orator and philosopherPublius Hordeonius Lollianus ;
*Lollianus Titianus, a man ordered to arm gladiators atCapua in the last days ofDidius Julianus , if we are to believe the Historia Augusta (Did.Jul. viii.3);
*A man sentenced to death by the emperorValentinian I , ostensibly for authoring a book on black magic.External links
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Tyranni_XXX*.html#Lollianus Historia Augusta biographical sketch of the pretender Lollianus]
* [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/def82001.htm Seven Martyrs at Samosata] , from Butler's Lives of the Saints
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