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Gaius Visellius Varro

Quaestor in 59 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 69 BCE
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Mommsen (CIL 1, p. 172), and Niccolini (FTP 422-424) are inclined to refer the Lex Visellia to a bill regulating city affairs, particularly the assignment of road commissioners, passed before 71 B.C., the date to which they attribute both the Lex Antonia de Termessensibus and the Tribunes named both there and in the above inscription. To Niccolini this implies that the law was passed before 81 when legislative powers were taken from the Tribunes, and automatically excludes C. Visellius Varro, Cicero's cousin, from being the sponsor of the bill. If L. R. Taylor correctly dates the Lex Antonia in 68 (a) the law can be attributed to Visellius Varro and dated in 70 or 69. Varro was a Military Tribune in Asia in 79-78 (b), a senator of quaestorian rank in 73 (c), and Aedile at some unknown date, perhaps about 59 (see 59, Aediles; Seidel, Fast. Aed. 62). He probably held the tribunate in 70 or 69 and carried this law.

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12 .2,744, cur. viar. e lege Visellia.
      • (a) CPh 36 [1941] 121 f., note 32
      • (b) Cic. Verr. 2.1.71
      • (c) SIG³ 747
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 69 BCE (Quaestor) , 59 BCE (Consul)

    C. Licinius Murena (1 year; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 59 BCE (Aedile)

    L. Calpurnius Bestia (24) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 59 BCE (Aedile)

    Q. Cornificius (1 year; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 69 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    Q. Manlius (1 year; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 69 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

  2. 59 BCE
    Aedile ·curule

    Broughton: Seidel (FA 62) suggests 59 as an approximate date. Varro's career (a) favors an earlier date for his aedileship, but if Murena was a younger brother of the Consul of 62 Seidel's conjecture is probable.

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Brut. 264; Vitruv. 2.8.9; Plin. NH 35.173.
      • (a) Tr. Mil. 79, Q. before 73, Tr. Pl. perhaps by 68
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 69 BCE (Quaestor) , 59 BCE (Consul)

    C. Licinius Murena (1 year; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 59 BCE (Aedile)

    L. Calpurnius Bestia (24) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 59 BCE (Aedile)

    Q. Cornificius (1 year; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 69 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    Q. Manlius (1 year; raw 2.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 69 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

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