Publio Petronio

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Publius Petronius was a Roman senator, who was active during the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius. He was the husband of Plautia, sister of Aulus Plautius (conqueror and first governor of Britain), attested in an inscription. According to Tacitus, the daughter of Publius Petronius and Plautia, named Petronia, married Aulus Vitellius the Younger, who was during the Year of Four Emperors (69) briefly emperor. They had divorced prior to that year: Tacitus states that Aulus Vitellius 'feared and hated' a man by the name of Dolabella, as he had married his divorced wife, Petronia. He consequently had Dolabella put to death by the side of the road. Petronius was the father, possibly by adoption, of Publius Petronius Turpilianus, who became the governor of Britain during the years 61–63. Tacitus in his Agricola writes that, during his governorship, Turpilianus quieted the existing troubles but took no further moves. Petronius was of the Senatorial class and he was appointed suffect consul in the second half of the year 19, replacing Lucius Norbanus Balbus. The sortition also awarded him the proconsulate of Asia; however, Petronius is best known as having appointed legatus or governor of Syria in 39, probably arriving in the country late in the year. A.A. Barrett lists him as an example of the "excellent appointments" made by an emperor often dismissed as mentally unbalanced.