ABSTRACT
On 1 January 112, Trajan took his sixth and final consulship. He shared the curule chair with T.Sextius Africanus, an otherwise undistinguished patrician, probably the son of the equally obscure T.Sextius Magius Lateranus, ordinary consul in the year 94, and grandson of the otherwise unknown homonymous who was an Arval Brother in the reign of Nero. Why this seemingly colourless individual was chosen at this time is not at all clear, except that he is likely to have been a favourite of Trajan’s, for the year opened with a series of celebrations to mark the quindecennalia of the emperor’s accession.
