Capellianus(62 words)
[German version]
As praetorian governor of Numidia in AD 238 (perhaps identical with the epigraphically attested legatus Augusti pro praetore L. Ovinius Pudens Capella, PIR2 O 189), with the legio III Augusta, he quelled the revolt in Gordiane (Herodian. 7,9,11; SHA Maximin. 19,20, Gord. 15-16; ILS 8499). PIR2 C 404.
Birley, A. R. (Düsseldorf)
Bibliography
K.-H. Dietz, Senatus contra principem, 1980, 109ff.
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Birley, A. R. (Düsseldorf),
“Capellianus”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 28 January 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e226560>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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