Lucius Nonius Asprenas (consul 36 BC)

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Lucius Nonius Asprenas was a Roman politician and general who fought with Julius Caesar and was elected consul suffectus in 36 BC.

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A novus homo of the late republic, and originally hailing from Picenum, [1] Asprenas was elected to the office of praetor by 47 BC. [2] Although having no obvious connections or political ties to Julius Caesar [3] he held a proconsular command under Caesar in Africa during the civil war, holding the town of Thapsus with two legions in 46 BC. [4] The following year he followed Caesar to Hispania, where he was given a command over the cavalry, possibly as a legate. [5]

During the early years of the Second Triumvirate Asprenas was largely overlooked for military command, but eventually he was given a role in Caesar Octavianus’s war against Sextus Pompeius. [6] He was rewarded for his services with his election as suffect consul in 36 BC. [7] In 31 BC, Asprenas was elected as one of the Septemviri epulones . [8]

He had at least one son, Lucius Nonius Asprenas, who was the father of Lucius Nonius Asprenas, the consul suffectus of AD 6. He also had a daughter, Nonia Polla, who married Lucius Volusius Saturninus. [9]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Syme, pg. 92
  2. ↑ Broughton, pg. 286
  3. ↑ Syme, pgs. 63-64
  4. ↑ Broughton, pg. 297; Caesar, Bell. Afr., 80:4
  5. ↑ Broughton, pg. 312
  6. ↑ Syme, pg. 111
  7. ↑ Broughton, pg. 398; Syme, pg. 199
  8. ↑ Broughton, pg. 427
  9. ↑ Syme, Ronald, The Augustan Aristocracy (1986). Clarendon Press. p. 56.[ ISBN missing ]

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Preceded by
 Consul suffectus of the Roman Republic
with Quintus Marcius
36 BC		Succeeded by

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