Ovinius Gaius Julius Aquilius Paternus (fl.
3rd century) was a Roman senator who was appointed consul in AD 267.
[note 1] Ovinius Paternus was a member of the Paterni, a prominent third century senatorial family.
[1] He exercised his duties in Rome while the emperor Gallienus was campaigning along the Danube against the Goths.
In AD 281, Paternus was assigned by lot to a Proconsular province, either Africa or Asia, but in an unusual move he refused to accept the offered post.