sentences:  He was Proconsul of Africa in 134/135 and appears to have been governor of Syria in 136 or 137, anomalous for a senior former Proconsul, but perhaps empowered to conduct diplomacy with the Parthians.In a resplendent end to a long career, his second consulship came in 139, as colleague of the new emperor Antoninus Pius, and at the same time he became "Praefectus urbi", succeeding Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus.However Praesens died in this office the following year, as revealed by a fragment of the "Fasti Ostienses" published in 1982.