Gaius Vibius Marsus, whomTacitus calls "vetustis honoribus studiisque illustris", was aRomansenator active during thePrincipate. He was consul in 17 AD.
Marsus wasSuffect consul for the second half of the year 17 withLucius Voluseius Proculus as his colleague.[1] He was mentioned in the year 19 as one of the most likely persons to obtain the government ofSyria,[2] but the post wound up going toGnaeus Sentius Saturninus instead.[3] In the same year he was sent to summonGnaeus Calpurnius Piso to Rome to stand his trial. His name occurs again in 26, in the debates of theSenate; and just before the death ofTiberius in 37 he narrowly escaped his own death, being accused as one of the accomplices of the notoriousAlbucilla. According to Tacitus he was governor of Syria 42-44/45, during the reign of Claudius.[4]
The name of "Gaius Vibius Marsus",proconsul, appears on several coins ofUtica inAfrica, struck in the reign ofTiberius: they probably relate to this Vibius Marsus; and as he was disappointed in obtaining the province of Syria in the reign of Tiberius, he may have been appointed to that of Africa.[5]
Marsus was married to a woman named Laelia, they had a daughter named Vibia together who marriedPublius Plautius Pulcher.[6]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Marsus, Vibius".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 962.
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| Preceded byas Ordinary consuls | Suffect consul of theRoman Empire 17 withLucius Voluseius Proculus | Succeeded byas Ordinary consuls |