Roman civil official and military officer (died 156)
Marcus Gavius Maximus (died 156) was an eques of ancient Rome who held several imperial positions, both civil and military, under Hadrian and Antoninus Pius.
Firmum in northern Italy is considered his hometown, confirmed by the fact that his voting tribe, Palatina, is found there. His filiation records his father's praenomen, Marcus.[1]
We know that he and the advocate Marcus Cornelius Fronto were acquaintances, if not friends: Fronto was made primary heir and executor of the will of Gaius Censorius Niger[2] who had included unflattering comments about both Gavius Maximus and the emperor. Fronto wrote apologetic letters to both men concerning the will, stating he had little choice in reading those comments out loud.[3]
^CIL IX, 5358 = ILS 1325
^Although Fronto calls him Niger Censorius, Edward Champlin (Fronto and Antonine Rome (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980), pp. 25, 100) identifies him with the eques known from other sources.
^Ad Antoninum Pium 3,4,7. English translation in Charles R. Haines, The correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto with Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and various friends (London: Heinemann, 1919), vol. 1, pp. 254ff
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