Quintus Pompeius Falco

Quintus Pompeius Falco (* in Sicily; † after 140 AD) was a politician and general of the Roman Empire.

Falco was born in Sicily. His full name was Quintus Roscius Coelius Murena Silius Decianus Vibullius Pius Iulius Eurycles Herculanus Pompeius Falco. 101/102 he commanded as legate Emperor Trajan in the first Dakerkrieg the legio V Macedonica, later he managed as a legacy the provinces of Lycia et Pamphylia and Judaea, in which he was also legate of Legio X Fretensis. After a Suffektkonsulat together with Lustricus Bruttianus in the year 108, he was 117 governor of the Roman province of Moesia inferior ( Niedermösien ) and then under Trajan's successor Hadrian to 122 of Britannia. Maybe he began the construction of Hadrian's Wall. He then managed to 124 as proconsul the rich province of Asia.

Later moved Falco, who was a pen pal of Pliny the Younger, probably from public life and devoted himself to, among other things horticultural. To 140 he shows the future emperor Marcus Aurelius on a visit to his fruit trees. With his wife Sosia Pollia, the daughter of two-time consul Quintus Sosius Senecio, he had a son, Quintus Pompey Sosius Priscus, who was consul in the year 149. Falco was 109 Member of the priests quorum of quindecimviri sacris faciundis since.