Background
Neratius Marcellus was the son of Neratius Pansa, who had been suffect consul around AD 75. His mother was a Vettia, probably the daughter of Marcus Vettius Marcellus, an imperial procurator.
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Lucio Marcellus
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Career
He had served as a military tribune in his youth, but had no other imperial appointments prior to his being appointed suffect consul in AD 95, replacing the emperor Domitian. This was followed by his appointment as the Legatus Augusti pro praetore (or imperial governor) of Roman Britain, possibly around AD 101. He certainly held the office by AD 103 and probably succeeded Tiberius Avidius Quietus a year or two earlier.
Pliny requested that Marcellus make Suetonius a tribune in Britain and although Suetonius eventually declined the post, the story does indicate that Marcellus was able to make military appointments easily through the network of patronage and apparently without consulting the army.
There is evidence that there was unrest in Northern Britain during Marcellus" governorship which resulted in the frontier becoming the line of the Stanegate. Neratius Marcellus was elected consul ordinarius in AD 129, serving alongside Publius Iuventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus.
