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The gens Viria was a Roman family of the second and third centuries, possibly of northern Italian origin. The first member to ascend the cursus honorum was Virius Lupus, who attained the consulship in the late second century. It is possible that the family was elevated to patrician status around that time. The family's influence reached its apex during the third century.[1][2]
Palmyrene funerary bust of Viria Phoebe and Gaius Virius Alcimus, first century.
Víria Acte, a first-century Hispano-Roman businesswoman.
Gaius Virius Alcimus, along with Titus Statilius Hermes, built a first-century sepulchre at Palmyra, for themselves and their families, with a dedicatory inscription dating from AD 56 or 57. His wife, Viria Phoebe, appears with him in a funerary bust.[3][4]
Viria Phoebe, the wife of Gaius Virius Alcimus, was a first-century Palmyrene woman.[4]
Lucius Virius Lupus Iulianus, consul ordinarius in AD 232, and subsequently governor of Coele Syria, had risen from the posts of cavalry commander and triumvir of prisons, and served as governor of Lycia et Pamphylia prior to his consulship.[1]
Virius Lupus, consul suffectus sometime before AD 275, and consul ordinarius in 278, had been governor of Caelimontium, curator of Laurentum, and praeses of Coele Syria, subsequently becoming governor of that province in the 260s. He also served as governor of Asia, iudici sacrarum cognition of Egypt, and a priest of dei solis.
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