Bolanus

a friend of Cicero's, recommended by him to P. Sulpicius in B. C. 54. (Cic. Fam. 13.77.)

Bolanus also occurs in Horace (Sat. 1.9. 11) as the name of a well-known furious fellow, who would not submit to any insult or impertinence.

commanded a legion under Corbulo in the war against Tigranes in Armenia, A. D. 63, and was appointed governor of Britain in 69, in the place of Trebellius Maximus. In the civil war between Vespasian and Vitellius, Bolanus did not declare in favour of either; and, during his government of the province, he attempted nothing against the Britons, and allowed his troops great licence. But, as his administration was marked by integrity, he was popular in the province. The praises which Statius bestows upon Bolanus in the poem (Silv. 5.2. 34, &c.), addressed to his son Crispinus, must be set down to flattery. (Tac. Ann. 15.3, Hist. 2.65, 97, Agric. 3, 16.)