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Marcus Valerius Messalla (cos. 61)

Consul in 61 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 73 BCE
    (aged 31)
    Quaestor

    Broughton: The interval between this year and his consulship is the same as that between Cicero's quaestorship and consulship. (a)

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Elogium, CIL 12.1, p. 201-Inscr. Ital. 13.3.77.
      • (a) See Münzer, Gent. Val. 52, no. 59.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Octavius (3 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 73 BCE (Quaestor) , 64 BCE (Aedile) , 61 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Pupius Piso Frugi (cos. 61) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 61 BCE (Consul)

    C. Toranius (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 73 BCE (Quaestor) , 64 BCE (Aedile)

    L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 64 BCE (Aedile) , 61 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Petreius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 64 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 64 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Praetor ·urban

    Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.1, p. 201-Inser. Ital. 13.3.77-ILS 46.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Octavius (3 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 73 BCE (Quaestor) , 64 BCE (Aedile) , 61 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Pupius Piso Frugi (cos. 61) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 61 BCE (Consul)

    C. Toranius (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 73 BCE (Quaestor) , 64 BCE (Aedile)

    L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 64 BCE (Aedile) , 61 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Petreius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 64 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 61 BCE
    (aged 43)
    Consul · Co-consul: M. Pupius Piso Frugi (cos. 61)

    Broughton: Pupius Piso unwillingly proposed the bill to constitute a special court to try Clodius for his sacrilege toward the Bona Dea (a), and was probably the author of a law regulating the meetings of the Senate in relation to comitial days (b). Valerius, a good conservative, attacked Clodius, and opposed Pupius (c). On Pupius Piso, see D.-G. 2.69, no. 15; and on Messalla, Münzer, Gent. Val. 52f., no. 59.

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.912, 913; Cic. Att. 1.12.4, and 13.6; Caes. BG 1.2.1, and 35.4; Fast. Amit., Degrassi 170f. (M. Pupius Piso Frugi, M. Vale [-]); Plin. NH 7.98; 8.131; 37.13, and Solin. 26.10 M; Dio 37, Index, and 46.1; Chr. 354 (Calpurniano et Messala); Fast. Hyd. (Pisone Frugi et Messala Nigro); Chr. Pasc. (#); Cassiod.; on Pupius, Cic. Att. 1.18.3; and on Valerius, CIL 12 .2.914; Elogium, CIL 12. 1, p. 20 1-Inscr. Ital. 13.3.77-ILS 46; Val. Max. 9. 14.5; Plin. NH 8. 131; Solin. 26.10, p. 115 M. See Degrassi 131, 490f.
      • (a) Cic. Att. 1. 13.3, and 14.5-6, and 16.1 and 8 and 12
      • (b) Cic. Fam. 1.4.2; cf. Att. 1.14.5; QF 2.2.3; Sest. 74; Caes. BC 1.5.4
      • (c) Cic. Att. 1.13.3, and 14.2-6
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Octavius (3 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 73 BCE (Quaestor) , 64 BCE (Aedile) , 61 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Pupius Piso Frugi (cos. 61) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 61 BCE (Consul)

    C. Toranius (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 73 BCE (Quaestor) , 64 BCE (Aedile)

    L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 64 BCE (Aedile) , 61 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Petreius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 64 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Children
    Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus