Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus

Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus also known as Titus Sextius Africanus^[1] was a Roman Senator that lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century and first half of the 2nd century. He served as a consul in 112 with the Roman emperor Trajan.^[2]

Africanus was a member of the Roman Republican gens, Sextia. He was the son of Titus Sextius Magius Lateranus, who served as a consul in 94,^[3] in the reign of Roman emperor Domitian from his wife, Volusia Torquata.

Africanus married a Roman noblewoman from the gens, Vibia, and with her had the following:

• a daughter, Sextia (born c. 120) who married Appius Claudius Pulcher, a suffect consul of the 2nd century;
• a son, Titus Sextius Lateranus, who is also known by his full name T. Sextius Lateranus M. Vibius Ovel[lius?...] Secundus L. Vol[usius Torquatus?] Vestinus^[4] or Titus Sextius… Marcus Vibius Qui[etus(?)] Secundus Lucius Vol[usius Torquatus (?)] Vestinus^[3] who served as a consul in 154.

References

Sources

• J. Bennett, Trajan: Optimus Princeps: a Life and Times, Routledge, 1997
• Biographischer Index der Antike (Google eBook), Walter de Gruyter, 2001
• I. Mennen, Power and Status of the Roman Empire, AD 193-284, BRILL, 2011