Praetextatus
C. ASI'NIUS, consul A. D. 242, with C. Vettius Atticus. (Fasti; Capitol. Gord. 26.)
1. Q. Sulpicius Praetextatus consular tribune, B. C. 434. There was considerable difference in the annalists respecting the supreme magistrates for this year; we learn from Livy that Valerius Antias and Q. Tubero made Q. Sulpicius one of the consuls for the year. (Liv. 4.23; Diod. 12.53.)
2. Ser. Sulpicius Praetextatus, four times consular tribune, namely in B. C. 377, 376, 370, 368. He married the elder daughter of M. Fabius Ambustus; and it is said that the younger daughter of Fabius, who was married to Licinius Stolo, urged on her husband to procure the consulship for the plebeians, as she was jealous of the honours of her sister's husband. Niebuhr has pointed out the worthlessness and contradictions in this tale. (Liv. 6.32_34, 36, 38; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. pp. 2, 3.)
a senator of distinguished ability and uncorrupted morals, was proconsul of Achaia in the reign of Julian, Praefectus Urbi under Valentinian I., and Praefectus Praetorio under Theodosius. He died in the possession of the last office, when he was consul elect. (Amm. Marc. 22.7, 27.9, 28.1; Zosim. 4.3; Symmach. Ep. 10.26; Valesius, ad Amm. Mare. 22.7.) It was at the house of this Vettius Praetextatus that Macrobius supposes the conversation to have taken place, which he has recorded in his Saturnalia. [See Vol. II. p. 888.]