# Lucius Apronius

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'''Lucius Apronius''' was a [Roman](/source/Roman_Empire) [senator](/source/Roman_Senate) and [suffect consul](/source/suffect_consul) in 8 AD.

== Achievements ==
He became [suffect consul](/source/Roman_consul) in 8 AD, and was a military commander active during the reign of [Tiberius](/source/Tiberius). 

Apronius shared in the achievements of [Gaius Vibius Postumus](/source/Gaius_Vibius_Postumus) and earned the ''[ornamenta triumphalia](/source/ornamenta_triumphalia)'' for his distinguished valor in the [Dalmatian revolt](/source/Dalmatae)<ref>[Velleius Paterculus](/source/Velleius_Paterculus), ''Roman History'', II.116</ref> and the [Germanic Wars](/source/Germanic_Wars), along with [Aulus Caecina Severus](/source/Aulus_Caecina_Severus_(consul_1_BC)) and [Gaius Silius](/source/Gaius_Silius) in 15 AD.<ref>[Tacitus](/source/Tacitus), ''[Annales](/source/Annales_(Tacitus))'', I.72</ref> Once back in Rome, Apronius led a motion in the year 22 AD in the [Senate](/source/Roman_Senate) that decreed that votive offerings should be made due to the successful prosecution of [Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso](/source/Gnaeus_Calpurnius_Piso_(consul_7_BC)), accused of murdering [Germanicus](/source/Germanicus) in 20 AD.<ref>Tacitus, ''Annales'', II.32</ref>

In the year 23 AD, Apronius (along with a former proconsul of Africa, [Lucius Aelius Lamia](/source/Lucius_Aelius_Lamia_(consul_3))) vouched for the innocence of a man accused of supplying grain to [Numidia](/source/Numidia)n insurgent [Tacfarinas](/source/Tacfarinas).<ref>Tacitus, ''Annales'', IV.13</ref> However, as proconsul of Africa at the time, Apronius also severely punished a [cohort](/source/Cohort_(military_unit)) of [Legio III Augusta](/source/Legio_III_Augusta) for their defeat at Tacfarinas' hands with [decimation](/source/Decimation_(Roman_Army)).<ref>Tacitus, ''Annales'' III.21</ref> 

In 28{{nbsp}}AD, as a [legatus](/source/legatus) of [Lower Germany](/source/Lower_Germany) in modern-day [Belgium](/source/Belgium), Apronius led the combined forces from [Upper Germany](/source/Upper_Germany) in the [siege of a Roman fort](/source/Frisian_revolt_of_28_AD), and soon defeated the Frisii in a pitched battle near the [sacred grove](/source/Sacred_trees_and_groves_in_Germanic_paganism_and_mythology) of [Baduhenna](/source/Baduhenna).<ref>Tacitus, ''Annales'', IV.73</ref>

== Descendants ==
He is known to have had at least three children: one son, [Lucius Apronius Caesianus](/source/Lucius_Apronius_Caesianus), who became consul in 39 AD, and two daughters, one married to [Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus](/source/Gnaeus_Cornelius_Lentulus_Gaetulicus_(consul_26)), who became consul in 26 AD,<ref>Tacitus, ''Annales'' VI.30</ref> the other to [Marcus Plautius Silvanus](/source/Marcus_Plautius_Silvanus_(praetor_24)), who became [praetor](/source/praetor) in 24 AD.<ref>Tacitus, ''Annales'' IV.22</ref>

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