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Gaius Papirius Carbo Arvina (pr. 83)

Praetor in 83 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 90 BCE
    (aged 34)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Niccolini (FTP 223) has rightly seen that there were two persons named C. Carbo active at this time. The filiation of one was C. f., and of the other Cn. f., who was therefore a brother of the Consul of 85, 84, and 82. Both attained praetorships, and both died in the civil wars, Arvina at Rome in 82 (confused by Velleius with the brother of the Consul), and the other at Volaterrae in 81 (a). Niccolini has shown that Cicero in Brut. 305 lists the Tribunes of 90, not of 90 and 89. The Tribune of 90 is most probably the orator who is designated as C. f. and Tribune in Orator 213. The Tribune who was co-author of the Lex Plautia Papiria in 89 was Cn. f., the brother of the future Consul. To Niccolini's arguments for a date in 90 a decisive addition is Cicero's presence at the meeting Carbo held, for Cicero served in the Social War in 89 under Pompeius Strabo (b) and later in the same year under Sulla at Nola (c), and probably had little opportunity to hear the Tribunes of 89. Furthermore, Carbo's apostrophe to Livius Drusus in Orator 213 implies that his death was recent. Niccolini's view has been accepted by Münzer (RE).

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Brut. 305, C. Carbo, and 311; Orat. 213, C. Carbo C. f.; De Or. 3.10; Val. Max. 9.2.3, Carbo Arvina; Vell. 2.26.2.
      • (a) Gran. Lic. 39 B; Val. Max. 9.7, ext. 3
      • (b) Phil. 12.27
      • (c) Plut. Cic. 3.1; Cic. Div. 1.72; 2.65
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Sertorius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 90 BCE (Quaestor) , 83 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Claudius Nero (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Cornelius Dolabella (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Fufidius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Aemilius Lepidus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 83 BCE
    (aged 41)
    Praetor

    Broughton: On the identity of Garbo, see 90, Tribunes of the Plebs, and note 8. Velleius calls him a brother of the Consul of 82, but the Consul's brother was killed at Volaterrae in 81 (a).

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Vell. 2.26.2, an ex-Praetor in 82; cf. Cic. De Or. 3.10; Brut. 311; Val. Max. 9.2.3.
      • (a) Gran. Lic. 39 B; Val. Max. 9.7.3
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Sertorius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 90 BCE (Quaestor) , 83 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Claudius Nero (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Cornelius Dolabella (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Fufidius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Aemilius Lepidus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 81 BCE
    (aged 43)
    Praetor

    Broughton: An ex-Praetor when besieging Volaterrae in 80 (a). As he supported Sulla he could hardly have attained the office before 81. (b)

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Gran. Lic. 39B
      • (b) Cf. Cic. Fam. 9.21.3.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Sertorius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 90 BCE (Quaestor) , 83 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Claudius Nero (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Cornelius Dolabella (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Fufidius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Aemilius Lepidus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 81 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

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    Gaius Papirius Carbo (pr. 81?)