Quintus Haterius Antoninus
Quintus Haterius Antoninus or known as Antoninus was a Roman who lived in the 1st century AD. He was the only child to Domitia Lepida the Elder and consul Decimus Haterius Agrippa.
His paternal grandfather was the influential orator and senator Quintus Haterius. His maternal grandparents were the consul Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major. Antonia was a daughter of the Triumvir Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, sister of Emperor Augustus.
Antoninus was a first cousin of Empress Valeria Messalina, the consul Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, the consul Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix and Emperor Nero and a second cousin to Emperor Caligula and Emperor Claudius. He was one of the two male descendants of Antony to carry a form of the name Antonius. The other was King Polemon II of Pontus, whose birth name was Marcus Antonius Polemon Pythodoros.
Antoninus was consul in 53. By 57-58, he had as a senator had squandered his inheritance through extravagances. According to Seneca the Younger, he was considered by some as a professional legacy hunter.
