Lucius Marcius Philippus was a Roman politician who was elected suffect consul in 38 BC. He was step-brother to the future emperorAugustus, as well as his uncle (his sister was Atia Balba Secundus, mother of Augustus.)
Lucius Marcius Philippus claimed origin of his family from the fourth legendary Roman king Ancus Marcius. Reverse commemorates Romans that the Marcii are responsible for supplies of fresh water.
A member of the plebeian branch of the Marcia family, Philippus was the son of Lucius Marcius Philippus, the consul of 56 BC. By 50 BC, he had possibly become an Augur, one of the priests of ancient Rome.[1] In 49 BC he was elected as Plebeian Tribune, where he vetoed the proposal to send Faustus Sulla, Pompey’s son-in-law, as propraetor to Mauretania, to persuade kings Bocchus II and Bogud to side with Pompey and abandon Julius Caesar.[2] In 44 BC he was elected praetor, and although he was granted a province to administer after his term had finished, he refused to accept the validity of the allotment of provinces agreed to in a Senate meeting of November 28, 44 BC.[3]
With his father's marriage to Atia, he became step-brother to Gaius Octavius, Julius Caesar's heir. His father used his influence to help Philippus to obtain the consulate as one of the suffect consuls of 38 BC; nevertheless, during his consulate Philippus did not declare himself openly for his step-brother in his rivalry with Mark Antony.[4] By 35 BC, he was appointed the proconsular governor of one of the two provinces of Hispania.[5] After serving there for two years, he returned to Rome, where he was awarded a triumph which he celebrated on April 27, 33 BC for his actions while governor.[6] With the spoils of his victories, he restored the Temple of Hercules Musarum in the Portico of Octavius, thereafter known as the Portico of Philippus (Porticus Philippi).[7] Augustus restored the adjacent Portico of Metellus, rededicating it as the Portico of Octavia.
↑ Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy. Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press. p.194. ISBN978-0-19-814731-2. The name evokes Atia, the mother of Caesar Augustus and her younger sister Atia, who married Marcius Philippus (suff. 38 BC), whence Marcia, a cousin of the Princeps. (Limited Preview of this page at Google Books)
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