He was suffect consul during the nundinium of September to October AD 83 with Lucius Calventius Sextus Carminius Vetus.
[2] Ronald Syme suggested that "not perhaps a Cornelius adopting a Curiatius (still less the reverse, as some incautiously assumed), but rather the son of a Curiatia.
[5] While still an eques, Maternus served as a military tribune of Legio XIV Gemina, which was stationed in Roman Britain at the time.
[12] It was thought that this unnamed person was Gaius Octavius Tidius Tossianus Lucius Javolenus Priscus, known to be governor of Syria in the 90s.
[13] More recently Géza Alföldy and Helmut Halfmann have presented Maternus as the individual Pliny likely alluded to in his letter to Quadratus.