Caerellius Priscus

Caerellius Priscus ( praenomen unknown ) was a high-ranking Roman official and military leader of the 2nd century AD

Caerellius Priscus served under Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the provinces of Thrace, Moesia, Raetia and Germania superior. Probably 177-182, he served as legate in Britain.

Against the background of the military threat posed by insurgent Caledonian tribes rebelled at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Commodus alone the Roman troops in Britain. The praetorian prefect Perennis Tigidius posted by 182 Ulpius Marcellus as the new governor, who was going north of Hadrian's Wall with punitive expeditions against the rebels in the area. But for unclear motives then called mutinous soldiers a legate, Priscus, in which it could well have been Caerellius Priscus, to the Emperor of. Although the claimant refused the imperial dignity, but Perennis took the usurpation as an opportunity to relieve the senatorial legate of their offices and to replace them with chivalrous prefect. After the fall of Perennis ( 185) of the future emperor Pertinax was entrusted with the final suppression of the riots in Britain.

The further fate of the Caerellius Priscus is unknown. He had a wife Modestiana, a daughter and a son Germanilla Marcianus, which are mentioned on a discovered in Mogontiacum altar. Marcianus is identified with a C (a) erellius Macrinus, who was 197 executed by order of the Emperor Septimius Severus, probably because he had his rival Clodius Albinus supported.

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• Cassius Dio, Roman History, 72, 9 ( Anonymus post Dionem, Excerpta Vaticana 122)