Titus Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus
Titus Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus was a Roman senator in the second century. He served as suffect consul in 123, with Gnaeus Sentius Aburnianus as his colleague, and later as proconsul of Africa in 138/139.
An inscription on a marble altar found at Ratiaria in Upper Moesia was dedicated by a Titus Minicius Opimianus to the goddess Diana. Based on the letter forms, scholar Ivo Topalilov dates Opimianus’ active period to about 126–129/130 and suggests this is the same man who held high office, possibly with another provincial post between his Moesian posting and Africa.
His origins are uncertain. His family came from Italy, and Werner Eck proposes they hailed from Tusculum in the Alban Hills. This view is based on connections to the Papira tribe, burial evidence for Opimianus and his wife in that area, and inscriptions bearing the family name found there.
Eck reconstructs a possible family line: a father, perhaps named Titus Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus, who was procurator of Asia under Trajan; a son, Minicius Opimianus, suffect consul in 155; and a grandson, Minicius Opimianus, suffect consul in 186 or 187, who was proconsul of Africa in 202/203.
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