sentences:  Next he received the commission for the "tribunus laticlavius" in Legio I Minervia, when he led a vexillation from Germania Inferior to Pannonia and earned "dona militaria", or military decorations, for service on the Danube in the emperor Domitian’s campaigns.He served as quaestor in Hispania Baetica, and it may have been at this time that he first became friends with the young Hadrian, but thereafter he retired from public life.In his book on the Roman Senate in this period, Richard Talbert notes that some senators in this period, including Praesens, abandoned their efforts at climbing the chain of offices, discouraged at the lengthy wait they faced to achieve the office of praetor or consul.