He was suffect consul in the year AD 134, immediately succeeding Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus as the colleague of Titus Vibius Varus.
[1] According to an inscription found in Fulginiae in Umbria, surmised to be his home town, he received triumphal ornaments for an unspecified military victory, as well as attesting his full name is Titus Haterius Nepos Atinas Probus Publicius Matenianus.
Werner Eck admits to the possibility Nepos replaced the previous governor Lucius Aninius Sextius Florentinus, who had died in office some time after 2 December 127.
[8] Earlier scholars presumed that Nepos had been awarded triumphal ornaments for a victory against invading Germans while governor of Pannonia Superior, and was cited as explaining why Aelius Caesar, Hadrian's designated heir prior to his selection of Antoninus Pius, had been stationed on the Danube for a year.
However, in a paper published in 1999 Werner Eck argued that the evidence better fit if Nepos was seen as one of the victorious Roman generals during the Bar Kochba revolt, which raged at the time.