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Lucius Afranius

Consul in 60 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 71 BCE
    Praetor

    MT: No further comments in MRR2

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • See 70, and 69, Promagistrates.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Caecilius Metellus (cos. 68) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 71 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Marcius Rex (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 71 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Aufidius Orestes (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 71 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 60 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 60 BCE
    Consul · Co-consul: Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60)

    Broughton: Cicero considered Afranius ineffective (a). Metellus as Consul-Designate and as Consul opposed the measures desired by Pompey, and also the demands of the companies of publicans for remission of their contracts for the taxes of Asia, and carried his opposition to the Pompeian Tribune Flavius to the point of being haled to prison (b). He opposed the attempts of his brother-in-law Clodius to transfer himself to the Plebs (c). The Consuls were assigned the two Gallic provinces by special decree of the Senate in March, 60, Metellus probably receiving Transalpine, and Afranius, Cisalpine, Gaul (d), but the Tribune Flavius threatened to take Metellus' province from him, and probably carried out his threat; at any rate Metellus died suddenly before April, 59, without leaving the city (e). See Broughton, TAPhA 79 (1948) 73-76.

    Sources (6)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.915, 916, 917; Cic. Att. 1.18.8; Dom. 13; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 131, 490f. ([-]ci[-]); Plin. NH 2.170; Flor. 2.13.8; Dio 37, Index, and 49. 1; Obseq. 62; Chr. 354 (Afranio et Metello); Fast. Hyd. (Afranio et Metello Cedere); Chr. Pasc. (#); Cassiod.; on Afranius, CIL 12.2.752-ILS 878; and on Metellus Cic. Pis. 8; Hor. Carm. 2.1.1; Ascon. 7 C.
      • (a) Cic. Att. 1.18-20
      • (b) Cic. Att. 1. 17-20, and esp. 2. 1.8; Dio 37.49-50
      • (c) Cic. Att. 2.1.4-5, cf. 1.18.5; Har. Resp. 45; Cael. 60; Dio 37.51.1-2
      • (d) Cic. Att. 1.19.2, and 20.5; Dio 37.50.4
      • (e) Cic. Cael. 59; Sest. 130-13 1; Vat. 19; Att. 2.5.2; Dio 37.50.4
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Caecilius Metellus (cos. 68) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 71 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Marcius Rex (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 71 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Aufidius Orestes (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 71 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 60 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.