Priscus is the Latin word for "ancient" or "venerable." There were several figures in Antiquity named Priscus: Priscus of Panium, 5th-century historian Priscus Attalus, senator and briefly Emperor Priscus of Epirus, 4th-century Neoplatonist philosopher and friend of the emperor Julian Marcus Statius Priscus, 2nd-century Roman general and politician Caerellius Priscus, governor of Roman Britain in the 170s Gaius Julius Priscus, Roman usurper Priscus (magister militum), Byzantine general of the late 6th/early 7th centuries Helvidius Priscus, Stoic philosopher Tarquinius Priscus, legendary king of Rome Clutorius Priscus, Roman poet Priscus (gladiator), 1st-century Roman gladiator Saint Priscus Iavolenus Priscus, 1st-century Roman jurist Titus Julius Priscus, 3rd-century Roman governor and usurper Priscus of Lyon (d. in the 580s), bishop of Lyon Other uses Bison priscus, a Pleistocene species of Bison from Eurasia 13653 Priscus, an asteroid