[2] He constructed the Caldaccoli Aqueduct to Pisa in 92 AD as he was patron of the Pisan colony, and consul of Attidium (Roman city near Fabriano), according to an inscription (CIL XI 1433).
In a paper published in 1968, Syme suggested that he may be identified as the otherwise unknown Montanus, to whom Pliny the Younger wrote two letters (Epistulae VII.29, VIII.6) complaining about an inscription set up by the Senate praising Pallas, the freedman of Claudius, whom they both detested.
Although Syme believed Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus, consul 123, was possibly his son,[7] Schied has shown that this is not likely.
This is probably the same Montanus described by Juvenal in his fourth satire:[8] nouerat ille luxuriam inperii ueterem noctesque Neronis iam medias aliamque famem, cum pulmo Falerno arderet.
nulli maior fuit usus edendi tempestate mea: Circeis nata forent an Lucrinum ad saxum Rutupinoue edita fundo ostrea callebat primo deprendere morsu, et semel aspecti litus dicebat echini.