 Ronald Syme, noting the difficulty of polyonymous names, proposed identifying Blaesus with another consular senator, Sallustius Lucullus, the date of whose consulate is not known.According to Suetonius, Lucullus was executed by the emperor Domitian for allowing a new type of lance to be named after him.Syme further suggests that Sallustius Blaesus had a second "gentilicum", "Velleius", allowing him to be identified with one Velleius Blaesus, the subject of a letter Pliny the Younger wrote to his friend Calvisius