Talk:Publius Petronius

Questions about P. Petronius
I came to this article from a link at List of Roman governors of Asia, which identified Petronius with the suffect consul of AD 19, who was also proconsul of Asia from 29 to 35. (See R. Syme, "The Early Tiberian Consuls", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 30, (1981), pp. 189-202.) However, the article asserts this P. Petronius is "little known" before becoming governor of Syria in 39. Looking at the dates it is tempting to conclude they are the same man, but I'd like to know on what basis someone considered this P. Petronius to be a different person than the suffect consul. (Or maybe this is just a bit of original research that inadvertently crept in.) -- llywrch (talk) 19:09, 13 June 2016 (UTC)