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Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes

Consul in 71 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 79 BCE
    Aedile

    Broughton: Aedile probably by or before 79 (a).

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

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Sura (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 71 BCE (Consul)

    M. Aurelius Cotta (cos. 74) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Junius Silanus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Peducaeus (pr. 77) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    D. Junius Brutus (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 77 BCE (Consul)

  2. 77 BCE
    Praetor ·urban

    MT: No further comments in MRR2

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

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Sura (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 71 BCE (Consul)

    M. Aurelius Cotta (cos. 74) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Junius Silanus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Peducaeus (pr. 77) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    D. Junius Brutus (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 77 BCE (Consul)

  3. 71 BCE
    Consul · Co-consul: P. Cornelius Lentulus Sura

    Broughton: See RE, nos. 6 and 7. He was probably an Aurelius Orestes (see 126, and 103, Consuls) adopted by Cn. Aufidius in his old age (a).

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.686, 898, 899, 900, 2718-RE 17.2.1423, no. 27; Eutrop. 6.8.1; Chr. 354 (Lentulo et Horesten); Fast. Hyd. (Plendulo et Oreste), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Lentulus, Vell. 2.34.4; Dio 37.30.4; and on Orestes, Cic. Planc. 52. See Degrassi 131, 486f.
      • (a) Cic. Dom. 35
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Sura (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 71 BCE (Consul)

    M. Aurelius Cotta (cos. 74) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Junius Silanus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Peducaeus (pr. 77) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    D. Junius Brutus (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.333, final 0.333): 77 BCE (Consul)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.