Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco

Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco (flourished 190s) was a Roman Empire politician who became consul and senator.

Falco was the son of Quintus Pompeius Senecio Sosius Priscus. He married Sulpicia Agrippina, the sister of Sulpicius Justus and Pollio Sulpicius, a Senatorial family whose origins lay in Lycia.[1]

Falco was consul ordinarius in 193 with Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus, both of whom Emperor Commodus planned to murder to usurp their offices, intending a procession as sole consul and primus palus secutorum from the barracks of the gladiators. Knowledge of that plan, according to Dio Cassius, led to Commodus's assassination.[2] Then, Sosius Falco was offered the imperial throne by the Praetorian Guard, which he declined; but he is known to have attempted a coup against Pertinax. However, Pertinax spared his life.[3]

References
  1. Shelagh Jameson, "Two Lycian Families", Anatolian Studies, 16 (1966), p. 127
  2. Dio, 72.22.1-2
  3. Jameson, "Two Lycian Families", p. 128
Political offices
Preceded by
Imp. Caesar L. Aelius Aurelius Commodus Augustus VII,
and Publius Helvius Pertinax II		 Consul of the Roman Empire
193
with Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus		 Succeeded by
Quintus Tineius Sacerdos,
and Publius Julius Scapula Priscus
as suffect consuls
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