Gaius Marcius Rutilus Censorinus was a Roman politician from the plebeian gens Marcia in the fourth and third centuries BC.

Family

His father

Gaius Marcius Rutilus Gaius Marcius Rutilus (also seen as "Rutulus") was the first plebeian dictator and censor of ancient Rome, and was consul four times. He was first elected consul in 357 BC, then appointed as dictator the following year in order to deal with an in ...

served as consul four times in the years 357 - 342 BC.

Career

Marcius served as tribune of the people in 311 BC. In 310, he was consul together with

Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus (or Rullus) was a Patrician (ancient Rome), patrician, politician and soldier of the Roman Republic during the fourth and early third century BC. He was the son of Marcus Fabius Ambustus (consul 360 BC), Marcus F ...

. In that year, he fought against the Samnites and conquered Alifae in

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, but was seriously wounded in a subsequent battle.Titus Livius IX, 38, 1. In 300, he was named as one of the first plebeian pontiffs and as augur. He served as censor in 294 and 265 BC. He is said to have brought forward a law precluding anyone from holding the censorship more than twice in the future.Titus Livius X, 9, 2. It is because of this law that he is attributed the cognomen ''Censorinus.'' He was perhaps the first

princeps senatus The ''princeps senatus'' ( ''principes senatus''), in English the leader of the senate, was the first member by precedence on the membership rolls of the Roman Senate. Although officially out of the ''cursus honorum'' and possessing no ''imperium ...

, appointed in 275 BC.Hans George Gundel: The New Pauly's Real Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol. 3, Ch.7 p. 862 1969, Stuttgart

References

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