Marcus Suillius Nerullinus was aRomansenator, who was active during thePrincipate. He wasconsulordinarius in the year 50 withGaius Antistius Vetus as his colleague.[1]
Nerullinus was the son ofPublius Suillius Rufus, who was suffect consul in 41 and a feareddelator. His mother was the stepdaughter ofOvid, but we are not told her name.[2] Anne-Marie Lewis has argued this woman was not only the daughter ofPaullus Fabius Maximus, consul in 11 BC, and the daughter (whose name we do not know) of Servius Sulpicus Rufus, the son of thehomonymous orator and jurist, but she was also the stepdaughter ofMarcia, second wife of Paullus, with whom she had an affectionate and long-lasting relationship.[3] Suillius Caesoninus was his brother.
The wealth and power of his father facilitated Nerullinus' advancement through his senatorial career. However, when a number ofdelatores, after successfully prosecuting his father for mismanagement whileproconsular governor ofAsia, they then attacked him "on the strength of men's hatred of the father and some charges of extortion. At that point the emperorNero intervened and ended the prosecution, "as if implying that vengeance was fully satisfied."[4]
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| Preceded byas suffect consuls | Suffect consul of theRoman Empire 50 withGaius Antistius Vetus | Succeeded byas ordinary consuls |