Quintus Sertorius edit

Career

1. 91 BCE
   Quaestor edit

   Broughton: Served in Cisalpine Gaul, where he levied troops and procured arms for use in the Social War (a). Quaestor, more probably in 91 than 90 (b), since Plutarch has him elected promptly after his return from Spain and also when the Marsic war was breaking out (#). He was assigned to Cisalpine Gaul, where he levied troops, procured arms, and continued active as a proquaestor (c). See (d). Rejected for the tribunate of the plebs of 88 or 87 through Sulla's opposition (e), preferably in 89 for 88, as his defeat appears to precede Sulla's march on Rome in 88 (f). No ancient text mentions his praetorship, but the regular assignment of Hisp. Cit. to his command (g) at a time much #) earlier than his departure to Spain late in 83 strongly implies that he had held it. Schulten's date in 87 seems to be a slip (h), but Sertorius may well have reached the legal age by 86, and have been praetor in 85 or 84, a date consistent with his activity in Italy (Spann, op. cit.). It seems better, rather than accept an intervening loss of imperium before he went to Spain, to assume that he kept his imperium as procos. (i). He may have received command over both Spanish provinces as Annius Luscus did in 81 against him (j). Procos. in Spain. See MRR 2.90, and annually to 72 for sources. On his campaigns, see above, on Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius (98), and Cn. Pompeius Magnus (31). Spann places the siege of Contrebia (k) in the autumn of 77. If his assassination has been correctly re-dated to 73, the notice regarding it in MRR 2.118 under 72 should be transferred to 73, MRR 2.112, with the addition of references to Strabo (l), and with a special reference to App. (m) On the discovery that the site of Contrebia was at Botorrita, see (n).

   MT: citation above taken from and confirmed in DPPR. In MRR2 in year 91 BCE there are no quaestors listed.

   Sources (1)

   • Broughton, MRR3
     • (a) Plut. Sest. 4.1
     • (b) Plut. Sert. 4.1
     • (c) Plut. 4.1-2; cf. Sall. Hist. 1.88M
     • (d) Sumner, Orators 107-108; Spann, Sertorius 20-24
     • (e) Plut. Sert. 4.2; discussion in Spann, 24-30
     • (f) Plut. loc. cit.; Spann, 24ff.; Ch. F. Konrad, Sertorius 7-12, 204, note 18
     • (g) App. BC 1.86, cf. 108; Ib. 101
     • (h) Sertorius 38
     • (i) Spann, 37-51; Konrad, 15-26
     • (j) MRR 2.77; see Badian, Studies 96, 104, note 164-165
     • (k) Liv. 91, fr. 22
     • (l) Strabo 3.4.10, 161C; Amm. Marc. 26.9.9
     • (m) App. Mith. 72
     • (n) A. Balil, Epigraphica 42, 1980, 199-202; and now J. S. Richardson, JRS 73, 1983, 33-41
2. 90 BCE
   Quaestor edit

   Served in Cisalpine Gaul, where he levied troops and procured arms for use in the Social War (a).

3. 83 BCE
   Praetor edit

   First assisted Scipio and Norbanus against Sulla, then retired to Etruria, and proceeded from there to his province of Nearer Spain (a).

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