Imperial Inquisitions by Rutledge Steven H

Author:Rutledge, Steven H.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2011-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

10 Armillatus

Juv. 4.53–5; schol. ad Juv. 4.53; cf. 4.53 (Valla).

Braund 1996: 247; Courtney 1980: 211.

PIR2 A 1062; RE 2.1189 = Armillatus (Rohden).

The name Armillatus is rare, and he is known only from Juvenal and his scholiast. Juvenal introduces Armillatus at Domitian’s council concerning the turbot (Sat. 4). There he, along with Palfurius Sura, states a hyperbolic legalism, that whatever comes from the sea belongs to the emperor. There is no explicit indication in Juvenal himself, however, that Armillatus was involved in delatio, though the implication is surely there, since both he and Sura are depicted as those denouncing the fish (4.50), which prompts the scholiast to remark that they would be delatores or calumniatores who would make such a denunciation. Further indication may be his opinion that the fish revert to the fiscus. In addition, the scholiast notes that Sura and Armillatus are nomina delatorum (53.3d, cf. 53.3). These are the only signs we have of Armillatus’ involvement in delation; the scholiast also states that he was one of the powerful at Domitian’s court (potentes apud Domitianum), and further indicates Armillatus’ role in delation by the close association between the activity of Sura and Armillatus and those of the inquisitores (a technical term and one which, as Juvenal uses it, could well refer to both the pettiness and pervasiveness of informers under Domitian [so Braund 1996: 247]). More concerning Armillatus is unknown.

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