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Publius Sulpicius Galba

Praetor in 66 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 69 BCE
    Aedile ·curule

    Broughton: Sulpicius was not in office in 70 when Verres rejected him from the jury (a), nor is it probable that he held the aedileship after 69, since he was a candidate for the consulship of 63 (b). Bardt (Priester 15), Seidel (FA 54f.), and Münzer (RE) place his aedileship in 71, believing him excluded from 69 by the aedileships of Cicero and Caesonius, but with L. R. Taylor's demonstration that they were almost certainly Aediles of the Plebs (see note 5), this year becomes available for Sulpicius. See Pontifices. The evidence above excludes Sydenharn's dating in 65 (page lxiv of his forthcoming work).

    Sources (3)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Grueber, CRRBM 1.433.
      • (a) Cic. Verr. 2.1.18
      • (b) Cic. Att. 1.1.1 Note 5: Mommsen (Str. 1.443, note 2; 2.518-522; RF 1.100) and Seidel (FA) supposed that Cicero and his colleague Caesonius were Curule Aediles. The games however that Cicero gave were dedicated to Ceres, Liber and Libera, and to Flora (Verr. 2.5.36-37). He never refers to himself as Curule Aedile, or records giving the Megalesian games. The primi Romani ludi of Verr. 2.5.36-37 were probably not the Ludi Romani but the Ludi Plebeii. On the whole question, see L. R. Taylor, AJPh 60 (1939) 200, note 25.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Caesonius (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.667, final 1.667): 69 BCE (Aedile) , 66 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Tullius Cicero (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.667, final 1.667): 69 BCE (Aedile) , 66 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Cornificius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.333, final 1.333): 69 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 66 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Antonius Hibrida (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 66 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Aquilius Gallus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 66 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 66 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: A candidate for the consulship of 63 (a). If his aedileship is correctly dated in 69, this is the most probable year for his praetorship.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Caesonius (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.667, final 1.667): 69 BCE (Aedile) , 66 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Tullius Cicero (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.667, final 1.667): 69 BCE (Aedile) , 66 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Cornificius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.333, final 1.333): 69 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 66 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Antonius Hibrida (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 66 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Aquilius Gallus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 66 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.