Mamercus Aemilius Mamercinus

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Mamercus Aemilius Mamercinus was a political figure in the Roman Republic, serving as consular tribune in 438 BC and dictator three times in 437, 434, and 426 BC. [1]

Prior to gaining the imperium Aemilius was, in 446 BC, elected Quaestor together with Lucius Valerius Potitus. They were, according to Tacitus, the first elected quaestors of the Republic. [2] [3]

His first and third dictatorships involved wars against the Veintines and Fidenates. He was victorious both times, capturing Fidenae in 426 BC.

His second dictatorship in 434 BC was occasioned by fear of an impending war with Etruria, but that war never materialized. Aemilius Mamercinus instead used his office to propose cutting the term of the censors from five years to eighteen months. This change was vigorously opposed by the senate but loved by the people, so he submitted the lex Aemilia de censura minuenda to the Tribal Assembly, which approved it. [4] In retaliation, the censors used the power of their office to strike him from his tribe, increase his tax burden eight-fold, and brand him an aerarian. [5]

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References

  1. Smith, William, ed. (1870) [1849]. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. vol. II, p. 910.
  2. Tacitus, Annals, xi. 22
  3. Broughton, vol i, pp.51
  4. Hartfield, Marianne (1982). The Roman Dictator. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. pp. 54–55.
  5. Livy, Titus. Ab urbe condita . 4.2324.
Political offices
Preceded byas Consuls of the Roman Republic Consular Tribune of the Roman Republic
438
with Lucius Julius Iulus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Succeeded byas Consuls of the Roman Republic