one Ptolemaeus, who had been accused by her ex-husband of being a Christian; she admitted to the prefect that she was indeed a Christian and was sentenced to death. This trial led Justin Martyr, who had converted her, to write his Apology to plead for her life. Citing Urbicus' career inscription, Colin Wells 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." See also Lollia (gens) Notes References A.R. Birley, The Roman Government of Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 112–115 . External links Lollius Urbicus RIB Quintus Lollius Urbicus Berber rulers 2nd-century Berber people 2nd-century Romans Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome Roman governors of Britain Ancient Roman generals Antonine Wall Roman governors of Germania Inferior Urbicus, Quintus