Kuratela Tybru i prefektura miasta - najwyższe urzędy administracyjne stolicy Rzymu w cursus honorum P.Corneliusa Anullinusa i L. Caesoniusa Lucillusa Macera Rufinianusa

Abstract

The article is devoted to the curators of the Tiber who were honoured with the city prefecture at the end of their career. In the period of principáte the city prefecture and the three “curae” (cura aquarum, cura alvei Tiberis, cura aedium sacrarum et operum locorumque pub- licorum) belonged to the most important administrative offices in Rome. Both functions extremely rarely co-occurred in a senator’s cursus honorum and so it was a kind of a precedence. The analysis of cursus honorum of P. Cornelius Anullinus and L. Caesonius Lucillus Macer Rufinianus gives an answer to the question what criteria they had to fulfil to be awarded such honours. It turns out that, apart from military and organizational experience, an important skill was the ability to recognize and support the right side in the competition for the emperor’s throne. The biographies of the two senators share one more element that deserves attention. P. Cornelius Anullinus, when supporting Septimius Severus, had already fulfilled the function of the curator of the Tiber. L. Caesonius Lucillus Macer Rufinianus, at the time when he supported the Gordians, was an ex-curator of the Tiber and of water. In such circumstances, the new rulers could reward their faithful senators only with the highest post possible - the city prefecture.