Priscus (disambiguation)

Priscus is the Latin word for "ancient" or "venerable." There were several figures in Antiquity named Priscus:

  • Priscus of Panium, 5th-century historian
  • Priscus Attalus, senator and briefly Emperor
  • Priscus of Epirus, 4th-century Neoplatonist philosopher and friend of the emperor Julian
  • Marcus Statius Priscus, 2nd-century Roman general and politician
  • Caerellius Priscus, governor of Roman Britain in the 170s
  • Gaius Julius Priscus, Roman usurper
  • Priscus (magister militum), Byzantine general of the late 6th/early 7th centuries
  • Helvidius Priscus, Stoic philosopher
  • Tarquinius Priscus, legendary king of Rome
  • Clutorius Priscus, Roman poet
  • Priscus (gladiator), 1st-century Roman gladiator
  • Saint Priscus
  • Iavolenus Priscus, 1st-century Roman jurist
  • Titus Julius Priscus, 3rd-century Roman governor and usurper
  • Priscus of Lyon (d. in the 580s), bishop of Lyon

Other uses

  • Bison priscus, a Pleistocene species of Bison from Eurasia
  • 13653 Priscus, an asteroid
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