Priscus (disambiguation)

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