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Quintus Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus
Quintus Minucius Esquilinus ( 457 BC) was, according to tradition, a Roman politician and general from the early Republic, who served as consul in 457 BC as the colleague of Gaius Horatius Pulvillus. During his term of office, a military threat from the Aequi and then the Sabines was said to have prevented internal conflict between the patricians and plebeians (Livy, 3.30). Minucius marched with a force against the Sabines, but was unable to bring the enemy to battle. Although most ancient sources agree that the consul of this year was called Quintus Minucius, the historian Diodorus Siculus instead named "Lucius Postumius" in his place. Beloch was inclined to accept this and to regard Minucius as an interpolation from later times. According to the '' Fasti Capitolini'', an inscribed list of magistrates set up in the Roman Forum by the Emperor Augustus, Quintus Minucius was brother and successor in office of Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus, and probably son of Publius Minuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic ( la, Res publica Romana ) was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire, Rome's control rapidly expanded during this period—from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world. Roman society under the Republic was primarily a cultural mix of Latin and Etruscan societies, as well as of Sabine, Oscan, and Greek cultural elements, which is especially visible in the Roman Pantheon. Its political organization developed, at around the same time as direct democracy in Ancient Greece, with collective and annual magistracies, overseen by a senate. The top magistrates were the two consuls, who had an extensive range of executive, legislative, judicial, military, and religious powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus
Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; he reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He is known for being the founder of the Roman Principate, which is the first phase of the Roman Empire, and Augustus is considered one of the greatest leaders in human history. The reign of Augustus initiated an imperial cult as well as an era associated with imperial peace, the '' Pax Romana'' or '' Pax Augusta''. The Roman world was largely free from large-scale conflict for more than two centuries despite continuous wars of imperial expansion on the empire's frontiers and the year-long civil war known as the " Year of the Four Emperors" over the imperial succession. Originally named Gaius Octavius, he was born into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian ''gens'' Octavia. His maternal great-uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, and Octavius was named in Caes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th-century BC Roman Consuls
The 5th century is the time period from 401 ( CDI) through 500 ( D) ''Anno Domini'' (AD) or Common Era (CE) in the Julian calendar. The 5th century is noted for being a period of migration and political instability throughout Eurasia. It saw the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which came to an end in 476 AD. This empire had been ruled by a succession of weak emperors, with the real political might being increasingly concentrated among military leaders. Internal instability allowed a Visigoth army to reach and ransack Rome in 410. Some recovery took place during the following decades, but the Western Empire received another serious blow when a second foreign group, the Vandals, occupied Carthage, capital of an extremely important province in Africa. Attempts to retake the province were interrupted by the invasion of the Huns under Attila. After Attila's defeat, both Eastern and Western empires joined forces for a final assault on Vandal North Africa, but this campaign was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spurius Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus
Spurius Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus was a Roman consul and a Roman politician of the 5th century BC. There was no recorded date of his birth and death though there was a record his term of office from 456 BC to 455 BC. During his time in office he saw continued division between plebs and patrician. Family He was the grandson of Aulus Verginius and the son of Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus, consul in 494 BC. His full name is Spurius Verginius A.f. Tricostus Caeliomontanus. Although there is some dispute as to who his son was: for example Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus (consul 448) is either his nephew, son of his brother Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus (consul 469 BC), Consul in 469 BC or his own son. Biography In 456 BC he was consul with Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca was a Roman politician of the fifth century BC. Consul in 456 BC. Family He was a member of the Valerii Maximi, a branch of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca
Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca was a Roman politician of the fifth century BC. Consul in 456 BC. Family He was a member of the Valerii Maximi, a branch of the powerful Valeria family. He was the grandchildren of Volusus Valerius and the son of the dictator of 494 BC, Manius Valerius Volusus Maximus. With filiation his name would be written Marcus Valerius M'.f. Volusi n. Maximus Lactuca. He had one known son, Marcus Valerius Lactuca Maximus, the consul suffect in 437 BC. Biography Questorship (458) In 458 BC, Marcus Valerius was elected quaestor, with Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus as his colleague. They continued the prosecution against the tribune of the plebs, Marcus Volscius Fictor started by last year's quaestors. Fictor was accused of giving false testimony in the trial of Caeso Quinctius, which had led to Quinctius' exile in 461 BC. Consulate (456) In 456 BC, he was elected consul together with Spurius Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus. Their term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Roman Consuls
This is a list of consuls known to have held office, from the beginning of the Roman Republic to the latest use of the title in Imperial times, together with those magistrates of the Republic who were appointed in place of consuls, or who superseded consular authority for a limited period. Background Republican consuls From the establishment of the Republic to the time of Augustus, the consuls were the chief magistrates of the Roman state, and normally there were two of them, so that the executive power of the state was not vested in a single individual, as it had been under the kings. As other ancient societies dated historical events according to the reigns of their kings, it became customary at Rome to date events by the names of the consuls in office when the events occurred, rather than (for instance) by counting the number of years since the foundation of the city, although that method could also be used. If a consul died during his year of office, another was elected to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Nautius Rutilus
Gaius Nautius Rutilus was consul of the Roman Republic in 475 BC and 458 BC. In his first consulship he was the senior consul, and his colleague was Publius Valerius Poplicola. Nautius was given command of Roman forces against the Volsci who had invaded Latium. Nautilus ravaged the Volscian territory, but there was no significant engagement with the enemy. Nautius held the consulship a second time in 458 BC with Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus. During his second consulship, he successfully carried on war against the Sabines. That same year, the Aequi attacked the allied city of ''Tusculum'' and defeated his colleague, Minucius. Nautius Rutilus returned to Rome to oversee the Roman Senate electing a ''dictator'', Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, to deal with the invaders. Nautius was probably the brother, or perhaps the son of Spurius Nautius Rutilus, consul in 488 BC. References Gaius Nautius Rutilusin Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' * Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Münzer
Friedrich Münzer (22 April 1868 – 20 October 1942) was a German classical scholar noted for the development of prosopography, particularly for his demonstrations of how family relationships in ancient Rome connected to political struggles. He died in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Biography He was born at Oppeln, Silesia (now Opole, Poland), into a Jewish merchant family, went to Leipzig University and then in 1887 to Berlin University, where he wrote his thesis ''De Gente Valeria'' under the supervision of Otto Hirschfeld. In 1893 he traveled to Rome, where Georg Wissowa recruited him to write biographical articles for the '' Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft''. From there he went to Athens and participated in excavations on the Acropolis. He also met Clara Engels there; they were married two years later, on 4 September 1897. Meanwhile, Münzer had been appointed as an unsalaried lecturer at University of Basel in 1896; he and Clara were supported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publius Minucius Augurinus
Publius Minucius Augurinus ( 492 BC) was a Roman Republican politician of the patrician gens Minucia during the beginning of the 5th century BC. He served as Consul of Rome in 492 BC Family Origins Although the Minucia gens has been traditionally known as a plebeian family, the family's origins are indeed of the patrician class and it is that branch of the family from which Minucius Augurinus is descended. He was the brother of Marcus Minucius Augurinus, who served as consul in 497 BC and succeeded him as consul in 491 BC. The word ''Augurinus'' was derived from the Latin word for omen (augurio or augur). Biography During his consulship in 492 BC, Minucius' colleague was Titus Geganius Macerinus. The consuls were required to deal with a famine which had taken hold of Rome and they focused their efforts on obtaining grain shipments from around Italy. The famine arose because the plebeian farmers had not sown their fields during the secession of the plebs which ended the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus
Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC, consul in 458 BC, and decemvir in 450 BC. Family Brother of Quintus Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus, consul in 457 BC, he was a member of the ''Minucii Augurini'' branch of the ''gens Minucia''. Lucius was the son of a Publius Minucius and grandson of a Marcus Minucius. His complete name is ''Lucius Minucius P.f. M.n. Esquilinus Augurinus''. Career Consulship In 458 BC, he was consul with Gaius Nautius Rutilus. Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Diodorus Siculus called him consul ''ordinarius'', but according to the ''Fasti Capitolini'', he was the consul suffect, replacing a certain Carvetus who died at the beginning of his term. This year, Rome had faced an assault by the Aequi whose treaty had expired the year before and Roman territory was pillaged by the Sabines, reaching as far as the city walls. The consuls levied two armies, Augurinus alongside the dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
