 These were both very senior procuratorial offices, the latter in particular traditionally considered one of the pinnacles of an equestrian career.In these roles he exercised military skills in addition to administrative ones; as "Praefectus Aegypti" he led military operations outside his province.He died resisting the invasion of Egypt by the forces of Zenobia of "Palmyra" in the troubled "inter-regnum" between Emperors Claudius II and Aurelian.