Quintus Tineius Sacerdos

Quintus Tineius Sacerdos (c. 160 – aft. 219) was a Roman senator. He is attested as Consul Suffectus 16 March 193 with Publius Julius Scapula Priscus.

As a youth he was a member of the college of the Salii Palatini. Offices he held as an adult included Governor of Bithynia et Pontus, and Proconsul of Asia sometime between 200 and 210. The apex of his career was serving as Consul Ordinarius in 219 with Emperor Elagabalus.

Sacerdos was the son of Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens. His brothers were Quintus Tineius Rufus and Quintus Tineius Clemens. He married Volusia Laodice. They had one daughter, Tineia, who married Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus, with posterity:

Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus – who assumed the Toga virilis at Rome early in the third century and was made proconsul of Crete and Cyrenaica in 240 A.D. He married Ovinia Paterna, daughter of Lucius Ovinius Pacatianus and Cornelia Optata Aquilia Flavia and had a son: Marcus Tineius Ovinius Castus Pulcher – consul suffectus and pontififf before 274 AD. He had a son by an unknown mother: Ovinius Tineius Tarrutenius Nonius Atticus (fl. 290 AD) – praetor and quindecimviri sacris faciundis. He married a woman named Maxima.

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