Related Research Articles
Spurius Cassius Vecellinus or Vicellinus was one of the most distinguished men of the early Roman Republic. He was three times consul,and celebrated two triumphs. He was the first magister equitum,and the author of the first agrarian law. The year following his last consulship,he was accused of aiming at regal power,and was put to death by the patricians.
The Battle of Mount Algidus was fought in 458 BC,between the Roman Republic and the Aequi,near Mount Algidus in Latium. The Roman dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus turned an expected Roman defeat into an important victory.
Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis or Inregillensis was the legendary founder of the Roman gens Claudia,and consul in 495 BC. He was the leading figure of the aristocratic party in the early Roman Republic.
Titus Aebutius Helva was a Roman senator and general from the early Republic,who held the consulship in 499 BC. He was magister equitum under Aulus Postumius Albus at the Battle of Lake Regillus. He was the father of Lucius Aebutius Helva,consul in 463 BC.
The gens Cloelia,originally Cluilia,and occasionally written Clouilia or Cloulia,was a patrician family at ancient Rome. The gens was prominent throughout the period of the Republic. The first of the Cloelii to hold the consulship was Quintus Cloelius Siculus,in 498 BC.
The gens Verginia or Virginia was a prominent family at ancient Rome,which from an early period was divided into patrician and plebeian branches. The gens was of great antiquity,and frequently filled the highest honors of the state during the early years of the Republic. The first of the family who obtained the consulship was Opiter Verginius Tricostus in 502 BC,the seventh year of the Republic. The plebeian members of the family were also numbered amongst the early tribunes of the people.
Titus Cloelius Siculus was a Roman statesman of the early Republic,and one of the first consular tribunes in 444 BC. He was compelled to abdicate after a fault was found during his election. Two years later he was one of the founders of the colony of Ardea.
Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus was a Roman statesman and general who served as consul six times. Titus Quinctius was a member of the gens Quinctia,one of the oldest patrician families in Rome.
The first secessio plebis was a significant event in ancient Roman political and social history that occurred between 495 and 493 BC. It involved a dispute between the patrician ruling class and the plebeian underclass,and was one of a number of secessions by the plebs and part of a broader political conflict known as the conflict of the orders.
Lucius Julius Iullus was a member of the ancient patrician gens Julia. He was one of the consular tribunes of 438 BC,magister equitum in 431,and consul in 430 BC.
The gens Genucia was a prominent family of the Roman Republic. It was probably of patrician origin,but most of the Genucii appearing in history were plebeian. The first of the Genucii to hold the consulship was Titus Genucius Augurinus in 451 BC.
Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus was a Roman politician of the 5th century BC,consul in 462 BC and maybe decemvir in 451 BC.
Gaius Horatius Pulvillus was a Roman politician during the 5th century BC,and was consul in 477 and 457 BC.
Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC,and was consul in 464 BC,and consul suffect in 453 BC.
Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus was a Roman politician during the 5th century BC,and was consul in 472 BC.
The gens Nautia was an old patrician family at ancient Rome. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Spurius Nautius Rutilus in 488 BC,and from then until the Samnite Wars the Nautii regularly filled the highest offices of the Roman Republic. After that time,the Nautii all but disappear from the record,appearing only in a handful of inscriptions,mostly from Rome and Latium. A few Nautii occur in imperial times,including a number who appear to have been freedmen,and in the provinces.
Servius Cornelius Maluginensis was a Roman senator who was elected consul in 485 BC.
Lucius Lucretius Tricipitinus was a Roman senator in the fifth century BC,and was consul with Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus in 462 BC.
Quintus Servilius Priscus Fidenas was a political figure and military leader in the Roman Republic who served as dictator in 435 BC and in 418 BC.
Agrippa Menenius Lanatus was consul of the Roman Republic in 439 BC and possibly the consular tribune of 419 and 417 BC.
References
- ↑ Ogilvie, Commentary, pp. 404, 405.
- ↑ CIR, n°2270.
- ↑ Ogilvie, Commentary, p. 284.
- ↑ Shatzman, "Patricians and Plebeians", p. 76.
- ↑ Broughton, vol. I, p. 10, 11 (note 1).
- ↑ Ogilvie, Commentary, p. 404, initially writes that Lucius was the "uncle" of Postumus and Marcus Aebutius, but on p. 549 he tells that they were probably the sons of Lucius. Therefore the earlier mention of Lucius as their uncle is likely a mistake from Ogilvie, who meant "father".
- 1 2 Livy, iii. 6.
- ↑ Taylor & Broughton, "The Order of the Two Consuls' Names", p. 6.
- ↑ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 34, 35 (note 1).
- ↑ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 637–639.
- ↑ Ogilvie, Commentary, pp. 404, 405.
- ↑ Feeney, Caesar's Calendar, p. 22.
- ↑ Pina Polo, Consul at Rome, pp. 13–20.
- ↑ Cornell, The Origins, pp. 304–309.
- ↑ Dionysius, ix. 67.
- ↑ Kenney & Clausen, Cambridge History, p. 463.
- ↑ Mommsen, Römische Chronologie, pp. 175, 176.
- ↑ Duncan-Jones, "Antonine plague", p. 108.
- ↑ Ogilvie, Commentary, pp. 394, 395, 405.
- ↑ Duncan-Jones, "Antonine plague", pp. 111–115.
- ↑ Livy, vii. 3.
- ↑ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 117, 204.
- ↑ Broughton, vol. I, p. 35.
- ↑ Livy, iii. 8.
- ↑ Ogilvie, Commentary, p. 410.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia, ix. 67.
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica , xi. 79.
- ↑ Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII, ii. 12.