Quintus Petronius Didius Severus was a Roman who lived in the 2nd century. Severus' family was one of the most prominent and significant families in Midolanensis or Mediolanum (modern Milan, Italy).
Severus was of the gens Didia. His father was Quintus Petronius Severus, born c. 70, was a distinguished General and had a sister named Petronia Vara, born c. 75. His mother was Didia Jucunda. His paternal grandfather Quintus Petronius, son of one Gaius Petronius, was an Insuber or Insubrian in the city. His grandfather, father, aunt and Severus himself were born and raised in Midolanensis.
Severus married Aemilia Clara, an African woman from Hadrumetum. Their sons were:
- Didius Proculus, married, his son was betrothed to his niece Didia Clara.
- Didius Nummius Albinus
- Marcus Didius Severus Julianus, 137, best known as Didius Julianus, briefly Roman Emperor in 193.
Famous quotes containing the word petronius:
“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)