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Lucius Roscius Otho

Praetor in 63 BCE, famous for the Roscian law (right to theatre seats for knights), and friend of Cicero's

🏛️ Career

  1. 67 BCE
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Carried a law to reserve the fourteen rows in the theater for the knights (a). Supported Trebellius against Gabinius (b).

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Cic. Corn. 1, fr. 52; Att. 2.19.3; Mur. 40; Phil. 2.44; Liv. Per. 99; Hor. Epod. 4.15-16, with Porphyr. ad loc.; Epist. 1.1.62; Vell. 2.32.3; Ascon. 78-79 C; Tac. Ann. 15.32; Iuven. 3.159, and Schol. ad loc.; 14.324; Suet. Aug. 40; Nero 11; Dom. 8; SHA, Hadr. 17; cf. Cic. Att. 2.1.3; Cum a lud. cont. avoc. fr. 1; Plin. NH 7.117; Plut. Cic. 13; Macrob. Sat. 3.14.12
      • (b) Dio 36.24.4, and 30.3
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.333, final 1.333): 67 BCE (Aedile) , 63 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Pomptinus Pontinius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sulpicius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Valerius Flaccus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 63 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: Was hissed in the theater for his tribunician bill reserving the fourteen rows for the knights (see 67, Tribunes of the Plebs), and championed by Cicero, the Consul. He was probably Praetor (a).

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Plut. Cic. 13, with the praenomen Marcus, cf. Fragments of Cicero's speech, ed. Müller, 4.3, p. 209; Macrob. Sat. 3.14.12
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.333, final 1.333): 67 BCE (Aedile) , 63 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Pomptinus Pontinius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sulpicius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Valerius Flaccus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.