Marcus Ulpius Leurus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Septimius Severus and Caracalla.
Life He was suffect consul in some undetermined nundinium in their reigns.Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 172 He is known entirely from inscriptions, which report little more about his cursus honorum than his consulate.
Leurus had his origins in Thessaly, then part of the province of Macedonia;Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 368 his gentilicium suggests he is descended from a man who obtained Roman Citizenship in the time of Trajan. Leurus is attested as having married Flavia Habroea; John H. Oliver has traced her paternal lineage, consisting of a number of prominent men of Hypata, for three generations.See the stemma at Oliver, "Review of: Die romischen Reichsbeamten von Achaia bis auf Diokletian by Edmund Groag; Die Reichsbeamten von Achaia in spatromischer Zeit by Edmund Groag", American Journal of Philology, 69 (1948), p. 441 Together they had a son, Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus, also a suffect consul around the year 230.
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