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Lucius Gellius Poplicola (cos. 72)

Consul 72 at which time he was general who led Roman legions against the slave armies of Spartacus

🏛️ Career

  1. 96 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Aedile

    Broughton: Held all magistracies up to the censorship . The date of his praetorship suggests the latest possible date for his aedileship. (MRR2)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 72 BCE (Consul)

    C. Sentius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 94 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Julius Caesar (cos. 91) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 94 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Coelius Caldus (cos. 94) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 94 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Manlius (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 72 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 94 BCE
    (aged 42)
    Praetor ·peregrinus

    Broughton: He was posted as proconsul to Asia (MRR2 as in DPRR) in the following year.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • SIG³ 732; cf. Cic. Leg. 1.53. In one of the inscriptions cited above (IG 12.8.24 1) L. Iulius Caesar is termed [# and in the other, if it really refers to him (note that on the stone the praenomen is Gaius), [#. On the coins he is termed Pr(aetor?). Gäbler (Ant. Münz. Nordgriechentands 3.1.69f., and ZN, loc. cit.) places him in Macedonia in 93/92, but has overlooked the fact that his successor Sentius was Praetor Urbanus in 94 and almost certainly proceeded immediately afterwards to Macedonia. Accordingly, Caesar's praetorship should be dated in 95 and his governorship in 94 at the latest. See Jashemski 54, and 130, note 1.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 72 BCE (Consul)

    C. Sentius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 94 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Julius Caesar (cos. 91) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 94 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Coelius Caldus (cos. 94) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 94 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Manlius (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 72 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 72 BCE
    (aged 64)
    Consul · Co-consul: Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus

    Broughton: The Consuls carried bills to validate grants of citizenship by Pompey in Spain (a). They checked Verres in Sicily by providing that no one in the provinces should be tried in absence on a capital charge (b). Lentulus proposed that sums remitted by Sulla be collected from buyers of the property of the proscribed (c). Both Consuls were defeated, first separately and then together, by Spartacus, and were withdrawn from command by decree of the Senate (d).

    Sources (5)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.897; Cic. Verr. 2.2.95; Balb. 19; Degrassi 131, 486f.; Chr. 354 (Publicola et Lentulo); Fast. Hyd. (Cn. Lentulo et Gellio); Chr. Pasc. (#); Oros. 5.24.4; Cassiod.; and on Lentulus, CIL 12.2.589.
      • (a) Cic. Balb. 19 and 32-33, cf. 38
      • (b) Cic. Verr. 2.2.94-98
      • (c) Sall. Hist. 4.1 M
      • (d) Sall. Hist. 3.106 M; Liv. Per. 96; Plut. Crass. 9.7-10.1; Cal. Min. 8.1-2; App. BC 1.117; Flor. 2.8.10; Eutrop. 6.7.2; Oros. 5.24.4; cf. Iulian Caes. 322 D, #
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 72 BCE (Consul)

    C. Sentius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 94 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Julius Caesar (cos. 91) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 94 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Coelius Caldus (cos. 94) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 94 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Manlius (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 72 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Children
    Lucius Gellius Publicola (cos. 36)