Decimus Junius Pera was a Roman politician in the third century BC.
Family
He was a member of gens
Junia. His son was
Marcus Junius Pera
Marcus Junius Pera (fl. 230216 BC) was a Roman politician before and during the Second Punic War.
Career
Pera served as one of the Consul, consuls for the year 230 BC; during his consulship, he – along with his colleague Marcus Aemilius B ...
, consul in 230 BC.
[Hans George Gundel, ''The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity'', Ch. 6, p. 64]
Career
Junius Pera held the consulship together with
Numerius Fabius Pictor in 266 BC. In that year the consuls twice celebrated
triumphs
''Triumphs'' ( Italian: ''I Trionfi'') is a 14th-century Italian series of poems, written by Petrarch in the Tuscan language. The poem evokes the Roman ceremony of triumph, where victorious generals and their armies were led in procession by the ...
, first over
Sassina, then over the
Sallentines and the
Messapii
The Messapians were an Iapygians, Iapygian tribe who inhabited Salento in classical antiquity. Two other Iapygian tribes, the Peucetians and the Daunians, inhabited central and northern Apulia respectively. All three tribes spoke the Messapian la ...
.
[Titus Livius XVI]
In 253, Junius Pera served as
censor.
[Valerius Maximus 2, 4, 7.]
References
3rd-century BC Roman consuls
Ancient Roman censors
Junii
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