Editing Marcus Statius Priscus (section)

{{Short description|2nd century Roman senator, general and consul}}
'''Marcus Statius Priscus Licinius Italicus''' (''M. Statius M. f. Cl. Priscus Licinius Italicus'')<ref group="note" name="name">The name ''M. Statius M. f. Cl. Priscus Licinius Italicus'' says he is the son of a Marcus as ''M. f.''; ''Cl.'' refers to the [[Roman tribe|tribe]] he belonged to, which in this case was "Claudia". See [[Roman naming conventions]]</ref> was a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[Roman senate|senator]] and general active during the reigns of [[Hadrian]], [[Antoninus Pius]], and [[Marcus Aurelius]]. Contemporary sources refer to him as '''Marcus Statius Priscus''' or simply '''Statius Priscus'''.<ref>Olli Salomies, ''Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire'' (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p.&nbsp;145</ref> He was [[Roman consul|consul]] for the year 159 as the colleague of [[Plautius Quintillus]]; Priscus was one of only two ''[[novus homo|homines novi]]'' to attain the ordinary consul in the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.<ref>[[Géza Alföldy]], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44080106 "Consuls and Consulars under the Antonines: Prosopography and History"], ''Ancient Society'', 7 (1976), p. 294. The other man was the jurist, [[Salvius Julianus]].</ref>