Later Career
Urbicus returned to Rome with the prospect of the prestigious post of praefectus urbi (Prefect of Rome), which he probably held in AD 146, after the death of the incumbent, Septicius Clarus. He was perhaps the praefectus urbi who is known to have died in AD 160.
Citing Urbicus' career inscription, Colin Wells offers an eloquent account of what today might be dubbed the "multiculturalism" and equal opportunity of life in the Roman empire. He concludes that: "At no other period of history could the second or third son of a Berber landowner from a very small town in the interior enjoy a career which took him to Asia, Judaea, the Danube . . . the lower Rhine and Great Britain, culminating in a position of great power and honor in the capital of the empire to which all these regions belonged."
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