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Name: Scriptores Historia Augusta Date: Unknown Region: Unknown Citation: Life of Elegabala 4.1-3 |
When they entered the Senate for the first time, Elagabalus ordered their mother to be brought in. When she arrived, she remained at their side on the consul's bench as a secretary--indeed, she witnessed the creation of a senatorial decree! Of all the Roman emperors, Elagabalus was the only one who allowed a woman to enter the senate as if she were a man [loco viri].
Deinde ubi primum diem senatus habuit, [Elagabalus] matrem suam in senatum rogari iussit. Quae cum venisset, vocata ad consulum subsellia scribendo adfuit, id est senatus consulti conficiendi testis, solusque omnium imperatorum fuit, sub quo mulier quasi clarissima loco viri senatum ingressa est.
Scriptores Historiae Augustae Little is known
about the author(s) of the Historia Augusta; even internal evidence
within the text is either falsified, skewed or utterly fictitious. Although
attributed to six different authors, the text was likely written by a single
author living during the 4th century CE. It is a series of imperial biographies
modeled after the works of Suetonius; these biographies cover the reigns of the
emperors Hadrian through Carus.
