Marcus Lollius

[4] Appian recounts that Lollius was a legate of Marcus Junius Brutus, who after the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC had been proscribed.

[3] Lollius either served in a political position as a quaestor, aedile, tribune or praetor before being appointed by Augustus as a provincial governor.

[3][1] During his governorship, Lollius defeated a Thracian tribe called the Bersi, as known from a fragmentary inscription found in Philippi, Greece.

Augustus dispatched his step-son Tiberius to rectify the situation and to regain the captured standard of the Legio V Macedonica.

[11] Although the political and military career of Lollius suffered, and he was never again given command of an army, he remained on friendly terms with Augustus.

[12] Lollius in 2/1 BC was appointed by Augustus as a tutor to his adopted son and grandson Gaius Caesar on his mission to the Roman East and to learn about government.

[3][1] Among the officers who escorted them were the historian Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Roman Senator Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, and the future Praetorian prefect Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

Lollius' relations with Gaius Caesar started to deteriorate when they visited Tiberius, who was living in voluntary exile on the Greek island of Rhodes.

Lollius fell out of favor with Gaius Caesar,[13] as he was accused of receiving bribes from the Parthian King, Phraates.

[3] Horace called Lollius a reliable man and praised the fact that he was above avarice, the usual sin of Roman governors.

Messalla's son was later adopted by his mother and aunt's father and renamed Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus.

Tacitus (Annals XII.22) states Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus was great-uncle to Lollia Paulina.

Aurelia bore Lollius the following children: Between 2005 and 2006, professors and archaeologists from the University of Cologne, Germany, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, participated in archaeological studies and restorations of Roman antiquities in Sagalassos, Turkey.

On the statue base there is an honorific Greek inscription stating, "Marcus Lollius is honored by the demos [people of Sagalassos] as their patronus [patron]."

These items found are possibly dated to about 1 BC, when Lollius and Gaius Caesar visited the Roman East.