Early Career
The early senatorial career of Lollius Urbicus is known from a detailed inscription erected in Tiddis. After a military tribunate with the Twenty-second Legion at Mainz, he entered the Senate and served for a year as legate to the proconsul of Asia. He quickly rose to prominence as the emperor Hadrian's candidate, and commanded the Tenth Legion at Vienna. He was decorated for service as a legate during Hadrian's Jewish War of 132-135. His consulship can be placed in 135 or 136, after which he governed Germania Inferior. He was transferred to Britannia soon after Hadrian's death.
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