Name Aulus Palma | Died Terracina, Italy | |
Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus was a soldier and Roman statesman who came from Volsinii in Etruria.
His first known post is that of praetorian legate in Asia sometime during Domitian's reign. He went on to command a Legion in the years AD 94-97 and became consul ordinarius shortly after, in the year AD 99. In that same year Cornelius Palma went to Hispania to take up the position of governor of Hispania Citerior. A short time later, he became the governor of Syria and under emperor Trajan, annexed Nabatea in AD 106, helping to create the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. In AD 109, was consul ordinarius a second time.
Cornelius Palma seems to have been valued by Trajan for his administrative and military skills. This closeness to the emperor may have been a deciding factor in his execution by Hadrian in the year 118 AD, following the death of the emperor.