Gaius Julius Iullus (consul 489 BC)

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Gaius Julius Iullus
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Office Consul (489 BC)
Children Gaius and Vopiscus

Gaius Julius Iullus (fl.c. 489 BC) was a Roman politician from the early Republic. He was the first from the ancient patrician clan of the Julii to attain the consulship, which he held in 489 BC as the colleague of Publius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus. [1]

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According to Dionysius, it was during their year of office that the Volscian leader Attius Tullius provoked a confrontation with Rome. With the help of the Roman exile Coriolanus, the Volsci prepared for war and began raiding Latin territory. As planned, the impact of the Volscian operations fell more heavily on the poor, exacerbating the already tense relationship between the patricians and the plebeians. [2] [3] [4] [1] [5] As the Senate was trying to calm the populace, a Volscian force under Coriolanus took control of the city of Circeii, where there was a Roman colony. The consuls were directed to set a watch over the city, call upon Rome's allies for help, and begin raising an army to meet the Volscian threat, but their term of office expired before these tasks could be completed. It fell to their successors to continue preparing for the inevitable confrontation with Coriolanus. [6] [3] [7] [8]

Family

According to legend, the Julii were one of the noble houses that came to Rome from Alba Longa when that city was destroyed by Tullus Hostilius, the third king of Rome, but it was not until the twenty-first year of the Republic that a member of that family was elected consul. Iullus' filiation is not found in the surviving fragments of the Fasti Capitolini . [9] If he was the father of the same Gaius Julius Iullus who was consul in 482 BC, then his father's name was Lucius. This is the interpretation given in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , which generally follows Wilhelm Drumann's scholarship on the Julii. [1] However, in The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Broughton gives Gaius as the father of the consul of 489. [5]

If Iullus was the father of Gaius, the consul of 482, then he was also the father of Vopiscus Julius Iullus, consul in 473, who shares the same filiation and must have been the younger Gaius' brother. [10] [1] As far as can be determined from their filiations, all of the later Julii Iuli who appear in history were descended from these two brothers. [1] At least some classical scholars believe that the later Julii Caesares may also be descended from this family. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 656, 657.
  2. ↑ Dionysius, viii. 1–13.
  3. 1 2 Plutarch, "The Life of Coriolanus", 26–28.
  4. ↑ Livy, ii. 37, 38.
  5. 1 2 Broughton, vol. I, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Dionysius, viii. 14–16.
  7. ↑ Livy, ii. 39.
  8. ↑ Broughton, vol. I, p. 19.
  9. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum , vol. I, p. 16.
  10. ↑ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 23, 29.
  11. ↑ Griffin, p. 13.

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