Aulus Pudens was a native of Umbria and a centurion in the Roman army in the late 1st century.
Martial also writes of Pudens's passions for young male slaves, his desire to own original copies of Martial's poems, and his ambitions of being promoted to Primus Pilus, the chief centurion of a Roman legion.
In one poem (Epigrams VI:58) he writes of a nightmare that Pudens had been killed in action in Dacia.
[2] William Camden's 1586 work Britannia makes this identification, citing John Bale and Matthew Parker.
Some scholars consider the Pastoral Epistles to be pseudepigraphical,[9] which would allow them to be dated to the 90s, but make their contents doubtful.