Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus

Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus was a Roman senator of the first century. He was suffect consul for the nundinium of January to April AD 92 with Qunintus Volusius Saturninus, replacing the emperor Domitian.

The Venuleii were, in the words of Ronald Syme, "an eminent and opulent family at Pisae". Apronianus' father was Lucius Montanus, proconsul of Bithynia et Pontus in the early years of Nero's reign which was confirmed by the proper understanding of a set of inscriptions from Pisa, which also confirmed his mother's name as Laetilla. As Apronianus was co-opted into the Arval Brethren in 80, it makes him unique in his generation for being the only known member of that priesthood whose father was a senator.

Apronianus may be the proconsul of Achaea of 89/90, attested in an inscription where the name is lost: according to the Acta Arvalia, he was absent from their ceremonies from June 90 to November 91. He may also have been adlected into the patrician class by Vespasian.

His wife's name is known to have been Celerina; it is not known if he had any children. Although Syme believed Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus, consul 123, was possibly his son, Latin English Well known to him were the old debauches of the Imperial Court, which Nero carried on to midnight till a second hunger came and veins were heated with hot Falernian. No one in my time had more skill in the eating art than he. He could tell at the first bite whether an oyster had been bred at Circeii, or on the Lucrine rocks, or on the beds of Rutupiae; one glance would tell him the native shore of a sea-urchin.