Publius Lollius Maximus

Publius Lollius Maximus also known as Lollius Maximus and Maximus Lollius was a Roman soldier who lived in the 1st century BC who served under the first Roman emperor Augustus who ruled from 27 BC until 14.

Maximus was a member of the plebeian gens Lollia. His name is often mentioned in Latin poetry which occurs in a later inscription.

The father of Maximus had owned a country estate. He may have been a possible son of the Roman consul Marcus Lollius or at least a very close relation of the consul, who was in high favor with Augustus. If Maximus was a son of Marcus Lollius, his mother may have been the Roman noblewoman Valeria, a daughter of the literary patron, consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus and sister of the consuls Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus and Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus. His possible brother may have been the consul Marcus Lollius. He could have been the possible uncle of Lollia Saturnina and the Roman empress Lollia Paulina. If Valeria was his mother, Maximus inherited the Praenomen and the Cognomen which occurs in the gens Valeria.

Maximus had served as a Roman soldier in Hispania against the Cantabri under Augustus from 27 BC until 25 BC. When Maximus returned to Rome from Hispania, he became a student in studying Rhetoric. Maximus being a young man, became a friend of the Roman Poet Horace.

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