Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Trajan. He was suffect consul in the year 115, replacing the consul Marcus Pedo Vergilianus killed by an earthquake in Antioch.Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 468
Hadrianus was descended from a wealthy Syrian family; Géza Alföldy has identified two of his relatives active in that province, one the patron of Heliopolis (modern Baalbek), the other a prominent citizen of Beirut.Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 319 He is known to have had at least one son, Titus Statilius Maximus, consul in 144.Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 323
Only a few steps in his cursus honorum are known. Ronald Syme states that he is "probably" the Statilius Severus, a military tribune assigned to an unknown legion, to whom Trajan addressed a rescript concerning a soldier's testament.Syme, "Governors of Pannonia Inferior", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 14 (1965), p. 348
The other appointment Hadrianus is known to have received was governor of Thracia; he is mentioned as the governor succeeding Publius Juventius Celsus on a military diploma dated 19 July 114.Evgeni I. Paunov & Margaret M. Roxan, "The Earliest Extant Diploma of Thrace, AD 114 (=RMD I.14)", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 119 (1997), pp. 269–279 Werner Eck dates the tenure of Hadrianus in Thracia from the years 112 to 115, admitting to the possibility that Hadrianus may have been consul in absentia.Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 112-115
His life after his suffect consulate is a blank.
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