Lucius Licinius Sura
Lucius Licinius Sura ( * 40 AD in Hispania Citerior; † 110/113 ) was a Roman politician and senator.
Sura came from Hispania Citerior. Under Vespasian he was Quatuorvir viarum curandarum and quaestor in the province of Achaia. Under Domitian Sura was then working as a highly educated orator and lawyer and one of the patrons of Martial. As a candidate of the emperor he was praetor and tribune. In 92 diseased Sura difficult. Well again, he was legate of the province of Gallia Belgica (probably 93/94 ). Probably in the year 97/98 Sura legate was then the province of Germania Inferior. ( The dating and the governorship are controversial., He could have been even Legionslegat in Germania. )
Sura played an important role in the transition to the rule of Trajan. Well around the year 98 was Sura Suffektkonsul and took in 101 comes Augusti and chief of staff, without specific forces command, the first part Dakerkrieg. To end the war, the Dacian king Decebalus sued for peace. The negotiations resulted in Sura. Since the conditions set for Decebalus were too hard, Decebalus decided to continue fighting. The following year, Sura was consul for the second time. In March of the same year he was back in Dacia. For his services there he received dona militaria and took part as a legacy on the second Dakerkrieg, for which he again received high honors, such as the dona militaria and ornamenta triumphalia as well as a statue.
In the year 107 Sura was finally together with Quintus Sosius Senecio for the third time consul. Sura was after Trajan the second man in the state and the intimate friend of the Emperor. He favored Hadrian and supported his accession to the throne. Sura was immensely rich as a friend of the Emperor. He established public buildings such as the Baths on the Aventine and buildings in Barcino, where he had an honorary statue. Due to an inscription that is installed but secondary, Sura and the Arc de Berà was attributed to a triumphal arch on the Via Augusta at Tarraco. After his death, 110-113, Sura was given a state funeral and a second statue.