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Quintus Opimius (consul)
Quintus Opimius was a Roman politician in the second century BC. Family He was a member of gens Opimia. His son Lucius Opimius was consul in 121 BC. Career In 154 BC, he was elected consul together with Lucius Postumius Albinus as his colleague.Titus Livius, XLVII He successfully defended the allied city of Massilia against the Ligurians The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named. Because of the strong Celtic influences on their language and culture, they were also known in antiquity as Celto-Liguria ..., receiving a triumph.Charles Ludwig Elvers, The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol. 8, p. 1156 His colleague Postumius Albinus died while serving as a consul, being succeeded by Manius Acilius Glabrio.Polybius, History,33,8 -11 References 2nd-century BC Roman consuls Opimii {{AncientRome-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opimia Gens
The gens Opimia, also written Opeimia on coins, was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned during the time of the Samnite Wars, and they are mentioned in Roman historians from then down to the end of the Republic. The first of the Opimii to obtain the consulship was Quintus Opimius in 154 BC.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. III, p. 33 (" Opimia Gens"). Origin The nomen ''Opimius'' is derived from the versatile Latin adjective ''opimus'', which may be translated as "best, highest" or "fat, abundant, fruitful". The name belongs to a large class of gentilicia which were either Roman or which cannot be shown to have originated elsewhere. Praenomina The chief praenomina of the Opimii seem to have been ''Quintus'' and ''Lucius'', but the family also used ''Gaius'' and '' Marcus''. All of these were very common names throughout Roman history. Branches and cognomina The only surname used by the Opimii of the Republ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Opimius
Lucius Opimius was a Roman politician who held the consulship in 121 BC, in which capacity and year he ordered the execution of 3,000 supporters of popular leader Gaius Gracchus without trial, using as pretext the state of emergency declared after Gracchus's recent and turbulent death. He was censured in 116 BC by a tribunal investigating illicit bribes taken from Jugurtha, king of Numidia, by his commission tasked with dividing territory between the king and his brother. He then left Rome to Dyrrhachium in exile where he later died. Biography He is first mentioned for crushing the revolt of the town of Fregellae in 125 BC. He was elected consul in 121 BC with Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, and while Fabius was campaigning in Gaul, he took part in perhaps the most decisive event of Roman history to that point. When Gaius Gracchus and M. Fulvius Flaccus were defeated for re-election by Opimius and Fabius, Gracchus organized a mass protest on the Aventine Hill. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Postumius Albinus (consul 154 BC)
Lucius Postumius Albinus was a politician of ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC. He was curule aedile in 161 BC, and exhibited the Ludi Megalenses, at which Terence's play ''Eunuchus'' had debuted. He was consul in 154 BC, and died seven days after he had set out from Rome in order to go to his province. It was supposed that he was poisoned by his wife, Publilia. He was also Flamen Martialis in 168 BC until his death.Livy, ''History of Rome'', xlv.15. Family He was apparently son of Spurius Postumius Albinus. See also * Postumia gens The gens Postumia was a noble patrician family at ancient Rome. Throughout the history of the Republic, the Postumii frequently occupied the chief magistracies of the Roman state, beginning with Publius Postumius Tubertus, consul in 505 BC, the ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Postumius Albinus, Lucius 600 154 BC deaths 2nd-century BC Roman consuls Deaths by poisoning Roman aediles Roman consuls who died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massalia
Massalia (; ) was an ancient Greek colonisation, Greek colony (''apoikia'') on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast, east of the Rhône. Settled by the Ionians from Phocaea in 600 BC, this ''apoikia'' grew up rapidly, and its population set up many outposts for trading in modern-day Spain, Corsica and Liguria. Massalia persisted as an independent colony until the Roman campaign in Gaul in the 1st Century BC. The ruins of Massalia still exist in the contemporary city of Marseille, which is considered the oldest city of France and one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlements. History Massalia was established ca. 600 BC by Ionian Greeks, Ionian Greek settlers from Phocaea, in Western Anatolia. After the capture of Phocaea by the Persians in 545 BC, a new wave of settlers fled towards the colony. A creation myth telling the meeting between the Greeks and the local population is given by Aristotle and Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, Pompeius Trogus (see founding myth of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligures
The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day Northern Italy, north-western Italy, is named. Because of the strong Celts, Celtic influences on their language and culture, they were also known in antiquity as Celto-Ligurians. In pre-Roman times, the Ligurians occupied the present-day Italian region of Liguria, Piedmont, northern Tuscany, western Lombardy, western Emilia-Romagna, and northern Sardinia, reaching also Elba and Sicily. They inhabited also the Regions of France, French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Corsica;Strabo, ''Geography'', book 4, chapter 6Livy, ''History of Rome'', book XLVII however, it is generally believed that around 20th century BC, 2000 BC the Ligurians occupied a much larger area, extending as far as what is today Catalonia (in the north-eastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula). The origins of the ancient Ligurians are unclear, and an autochthonous origin is increasingly probable. What little is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 154 BC)
Manius Acilius Glabrio was a Roman politician in the second century BC. Family He was a member of gens Acilia. His father was Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 191 BC. Career In 181 BC, Acilius Glabrio completed the building of the Temple of Piety and dedicated it. In the temple he erected a statue of his father, the first in Rome made of gold.Titus Livius, XL, 34 In 166 BC, he served as aedile Aedile ( , , from , "temple edifice") was an elected office of the Roman Republic. Based in Rome, the aediles were responsible for maintenance of public buildings () and regulation of public festivals. They also had powers to enforce public orde .... In 165 BC, he helped to organize the Megalesian games.Valerius Maximus, ''Famous Sayings'', II, 5, 1 In 154 BC, Acilius Glabrio was appointed suffect consul upon the premature death of Lucius Postumius Albinus.Charles Ludwig Elvers, ''The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity'', Vol. 1, p. 87 References 2nd-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
