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Titus Vestricius Spurinna
Titus Vestricius Spurinna (ca. 24–after 105 AD〔Based on Pliny the Younger, ''Letters'' 3.1, dated to 101, where he is said to be 78 years old, and 5.17, where he is alive and over 80.〕) was a Roman senator, consul, and a friend and role model〔Tim G. Parkin, ''Old Age in the Roman World: A Cultural and Social History'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), p. 73.〕 of Pliny the Younger.〔Jo-Ann Shelton, ''The Women of Pliny's Letters'' (Routledge, 2013), p. 131.〕 He was consul at least twice, the first time possibly in 73, and the second in 98. He is said to have "held no office under Domitian after it became dishonorable to do so,"〔Miriam Griffin, "Nerva to Hadrian," in ''Cambridge Ancient History: The High Empire A.D. 70–192'' (Cambridge University Press, 2000), vol. 11, p. 89.〕 but under Nerva, he was governor of Germania Inferior in 97,〔Parkin, ''Old Age in the Roman World,'' p. 122.〕 at the age of 73. He was awarded a triumphal statue for his military service.〔Shelton, ''The Women of Pliny's Letters'', p. 132; Griffin, "Nerva to Hadrian," p. 89.〕
Vestricius Spurinna is one of the correspondents in Pliny's ''Letters'', and had literary interests of his own, including writing lyric poetry.〔Katharina Schickert, ''Der Schutz literarischer Urheberschaft im Rom der klassischen Antike'' (Mohr Siebeck, 2005), p. 16.〕 Pliny says dinner parties at his home were often enlivened by scenes from Roman comedy.〔Shelton, ''The Women of Pliny's Letters'', p. 131.〕
The wife of Vestricius Spurinna was Cottia, who was probably considerably younger. They had at least one son, who died around 97 or 98 AD before he had begun a political career, typically at the age of thirty. Pliny refers to the son as Cottius, from his mother's ''nomen'', an example of how in the Imperial era sons might preserve their mother's name as well as their father's.〔Shelton, ''The Women of Pliny's Letters'', p. 132.〕
Pliny admired Vestricius Spurinna for his active but orderly life as a septuagenarian. He enjoyed conversation, reading and writing, exercise, and bathing. His diet was simple but good, and he enjoyed the full use of his faculties, remaining both physically and mentally vigorous.〔Parkin, ''Old Age in the Roman World,'' pp. 73–74.〕
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