Marcus Lollius
Marcus Lollius († 2 AD) was a Roman politician in the time of Augustus.
The young Lollius was - if he is to identify with the mentioned in an episode at Appian "Mark" - proscribed in the year 43 BC by the triumvirs and fought in the Battle of Philippi on the part of Caesar's assassins. According to Appian, he is then temporarily fall into slavery and joined after his pardon Octavian (later Augustus ) to.
25 BC took over Lollius as governor ( legatus Augusti pro praetore ) the responsible task to set up the previously independent Galatia as a Roman province. 21 BC, he became the first of his family (homo novus ) consul, first without colleagues because Augustus did not take over the office assigned to him. In his year of office Lollius restored along with the Quintus finally also elected consul Aemilius Lepidus the Tiber bridge Pons Fabricius. In the following years he fought in the Balkans against the Thracian Better, perhaps as governor of Macedonia. Well in 17 BC took over Lollius the office of the governor of Gallia comata ( the conquered part of Gaul by Caesar ). When three Germanic tribes pushed across the Rhine, Lollius marched out against them, but suffered a defeat which was henceforth associated with his name ( clades Lolliana ).
In the following years Lollius seems to have retreated from public life, but went 1 BC as the companion of Gaius Caesar, an adopted son of Augustus, in the east of the empire. There was a conflict between the two, allegedly due to greedy behavior of Lollius, who died shortly afterwards, probably by suicide.
Lollius was a typical representative of the reign of Augustus newly arisen leadership that came in by Ronald Syme as Roman revolution designated upheaval to political influence and personal wealth. He was a member of the priesthood of Quindecimviri and took in this function to the secular celebrations 17 BC part. Horace dedicated his ode 4, 9 Velleius Paterculus, who participated as Lollius on the journey to the Orient of Gaius Caesar, on the other hand painted a very negative picture of him.
His son of the same was the father of Lollia Paulina, who was for a time married to the Emperor Caligula.