Palma, A. Cornelius
was consul in A. D. 99, and a second time in 109. Between his first and second consulships, he was governor of Syria and conquered the part of Arabia in the neighbour hood of Petra, about A.D. 105 (D. C. 68.14). Palma had always been one of Hadrian's enemies, and was therefore put to death by that emperor upon his accession to the throne in 117. (Dio Cass. Ixix. 2; Spart. Hadr. 4.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.