M. Claudius Tacitus
Full name Coins (RIC V1 327-48) and Inscriptions.
Supposedly descended from the historian Tacitus SHA, V. Tac. 10.3.
CONSVL prioriRole name: CONSVL prior a. 273 with Iulius Placidianus 2: Fasti, Rossi N.S. 6496, 7375.
Described as ‘princeps senatusiRole name: princeps senatus’ and ‘primae sententiae consularis’ in 275 V. Aur. 41.4, V. Tac. 4.1, 4.3; ‘e consularibus vir’ Aur. Vict. Caes. 36.1.
Proclaimed AugustusiRole name: Augustus by the senate in 275 V. Tac. 3-7, V. Aur. 41.15, Aur. Vict. Caes. 36.1, Aur. Vict. Epit. 36.1. Killed by the troops in 276 V. Tac. 13.5, Aur. Vict. Caes. 36.2, Aur. Vict. Epit. 36.1, Zos. I 63.2. For the dates 275 Sept. 25-276 June 7, see Bull. Soc. Ant. 1965, p. 153.
Brother of Florianus 6 V. Tac. 9.6, 13.6, 17.4, Aur. Vict. Caes. 36.2; his children mentioned V. Tac. 6.8, 16.4.
The family owned property at Interamna V. Tac. 15.1 and in Numidia V. Tac. 10.5.
PIR2 C 1036.