Marcus Genucius Augurinus L. f. L. n. (or "Marcus Genucius Augurinus, son of Lucius, grandson of Lucius", see Roman filiation), brother of

Titus Genucius Augurinus Titus Genucius Augurinus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC, consul and decemvir in 451 BC. Family He was a member of the '' gens Genucii''. He was the son of Lucius and grandson of Lucius. His complete name is ''Titus Genucius L.f. L ...

, was a statesman of the

Genucia gens The gens Genucia was a prominent family of the Roman Republic. It was probably of patrician origin, but most of the Genucii appearing in history were plebeian. The first of the Genucii to hold the consulship was Titus Genucius Augurinus in 451 B ...

ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...

who lived in the 5th century BCE. Augurinus was

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...

in 445 BCE, the year in which the office of

consular tribune A consular tribune was putatively a type of magistrate in the early Roman Republic. According to Roman tradition, colleges of consular tribunes held office throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BC during the so-called "Conflict of the Or ...

was instituted. He and his consular colleague Gaius Curtius Philo opposed the ''

lex Canuleia The (‘Gaius Canuleius, Canuleian law’), or , was a law of the Roman Republic, passed in the year 445 BC, restoring the right of (marriage) between patrician (ancient Rome), patricians and plebs, plebeians. Canuleius' first rogation Five year ...

'', which aimed to establish ''

conubium Marriage in ancient Rome () was a fundamental institution of society and was used by Romans primarily as a tool for interfamilial alliances. The institution of Roman marriage was a practice of marital monogamy: Roman citizens could have only one ...

'' (that is, the right to marry) between the

patricians The patricians (from ) were originally a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome. The distinction was highly significant in the Roman Kingdom and the early Republic, but its relevance waned after the Conflict of the Orders (494 BC to 287 B ...

and

plebeian In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners". Both classes were hereditary. Etymology The precise origins of the gro ...

s. However they failed, and the law carried. After that law was passed, Marcus consulted with his brother, Titus, on ways to resolve the

Conflict of the Orders The Conflict of the Orders or the Struggle of the Orders was a political struggle between the plebeians (commoners) and patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient Roman Republic lasting from 500 BC to 287 BC in which the plebeians sought political ...

, although some accused them of carrying on the business of the state in secret.

Joannes Zonaras Joannes or John Zonaras ( ; 1070 – 1140) was a Byzantine Roman historian, chronicler and theologian who lived in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey). Under Emperor Alexios I Komnenos he held the offices of head justice and private s ...

, ''Extracts of History'' vii. 19.

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