Marcus Ulpius Leurus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Septimus Severus and Caracalla.
Life
He was suffect consul in some undetermined nundinium in their reigns. He is known entirely from inscriptions, which report little more about his cursus honorum than his consulate.
Leurus had his origins in Thessaly, then part of the province of Macedonia; his gentilicium suggests he is descended from a man who obtained Roman Citizenship in the time of Trajan. Leurus is attested as having married Flavia Habroea; John H. Oliver has traced her paternal lineage, consisting of a number of prominent men of Hypata, for three generations. Together they had a son, Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus, also a suffect consul around the year 230.
Family tree
| Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens consul ordinarius | Marcus Pupienus Maximus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quintus Tineius Clemens consul ordinarius | Quintius Tineius Rufus consul 182 | Quintus Tineius Sacerdos consul suffectus ∞ Volusia Laodice | Pupienus Roman Emperor (238) ∞ Sextia Cethegilla | Marcus Ulpius Leurus senator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tineia | Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus consul suffectus | Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus consul ordinarius ∞ Cornelia Marullina | Pupiena Sextia Paulina Cethegilla | Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus suffect consul | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus proconsul ∞ Ovinia Paterna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ^ Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 172
- Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 368
- See the stemma at Oliver, "Review of: Die romischen Reichsbeamten von Achaia bis auf Diokletian by Edmund Groag; Die Reichsbeamten von Achaia in spatromischer Zeit by Edmund Groag", American Journal of Philology, 69 (1948), p. 441