Decimus Laelius Balbus

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Decimus Laelius Balbus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Augustus. He was consul in 6 BC with Gaius Antistius Vetus as his colleague. [1] Balbus was the grandson of Decimus Laelius, plebeian tribune in 54 BC, and thus a novus homo .

Balbus was one of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis who organized the Secular Games in 17 BC. [2] Ronald Syme notes his membership in this prestigious Roman priesthood led to Balbus entering the consulate twelve years later. "That fact itself renders this novus homo not a little enigmatic," Syme writes, "but consecrates the value and significance of priesthoods as well as consulships." [3]

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References

  1. Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
  2. CIL VI, 32323
  3. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 78


Political offices
Preceded by
Tiberius Claudius Nero II,
and Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso
Consul of the Roman Empire
6 BC
with Gaius Antistius Vetus
Succeeded by