[2] His father was awarded the cognomen "Torquatus" and a golden torque by the emperor Augustus when he fell from his horse in the Trojan Games.
[5] Also in his teens he was co-opted into the Salii Palatini, a collegium comprising 12 patrician youths.
For unknown reasons this inscription records that Asprenas received dona militaria at this point, but the amount—comprising five coronae, eight hastae and four vexilla awarded to a man who held only the rank of quaestor—is unusual.
Once Asprenas had completed his duties as praetor, he was eligible to hold a number of important responsibilities.
The inscription from Lepcis Magna then notes he was governor of Galatia, Paphlagonia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia; according to Tacitus he held this appointment in the year 69.