Name Lucius Sura | ||
Lucius Licinius Sura was an influential Roman Senator from Tarraco, a close friend of the Emperor Trajan and three times consul, in a period when three consulates were very rare for non-members of the Imperial family: in AD 97 as a suffect consul, then 102 and 107 as a consul ordinarius.
Martial, in a poem dated to 92, congratulates Sura on recovering from a serious illness (VII.47); Ronald Syme speculates that Sura was one of the victims of an epidemic that followed one of the Dacian Wars. Pliny the Younger wrote to Sura, asking his opinion on the existence of ghosts.
Sura vanishes from the public record after his third consulate; Syme believes he died in 108. According to Cassius Dio, Trajan gave him a public funeral and had a statue erected in Sura's memory.