[2] Ronald Syme, noting the difficulty of polyonymous names, proposed identifying Blaesus with another consular senator, Sallustius Lucullus, the date of whose consulate is not known.
[5] Both Statius and Martial also refer to a recently deceased Blaesus, the friend of their wealthy patron Atedius Melior.
L. Sertorius [... Ped]anius Fuscus Sa[linat]or Sallus[ti]us Bla[esus .]
Julius Agricola [...] Caesonius",[7] leading Champlin to suggest that "a new figure can emerge, the composite of three shadowy consulars who died in the latter years of the reign of Domitian, viz.
"[8] However, P. Conole and Brian Jones point out since the records of the Arval Brethren "record his [Blaesus'] presence in Rome during every year of the first half of Domitian's reign for which complete minutes have survived, it is difficult to see how he could have managed to gain sufficient provincial experience in praetorian posts to merit appointment to Britain, an Imperial consular province.