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Publius Vatinius

Consul in 47. He was the tribune that proposed the law giving Caesar his Gallic command

🏛️ Career

  1. 63 BCE
    (aged 32)
    Quaestor

    Broughton: Elected last, he was allotted the provincia aquaria. Sent by Cicero to Puteoli to prevent the export of precious metals (MRR2)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Vat. 11-12; See Lübker 1094, no. 2.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Scipio (cos. 52) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Fufius Calenus (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Praetor) , 47 BCE (Consul)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 59 BCE (Consul) , 47 BCE (Dictator)

    Gutta (not in RE) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

    P. Plautius Hypsaeus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 59 BCE
    (aged 36)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: The chief supporter in the tribunicial college of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus. His legislation included bills to permit rejection of alternate jurymen in forming a panel, and setting limits to the staff of a provincial governor, the famous law granting to Caesar for a period of five years command of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum (to which Transalpine Gaul was later added by the Senate), one authorizing the foundation of a colony at Novum Comum, and other bills regulating relations with cities, kings, and tetraxchs. He played a part in the Vettiua affair. (MRR2)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Att. 2.6.2; 2.24; Vat. 5 and 13 and 38, and passim; Sest. 114; Suet. Iul. 20; Plut. Pomp. 48; Cae.8. 14; Cat. Min. 32-33; App. BC 2.11-12; Dio 38.1-7; Schol. Bob. 135, 145-147, 151 Stangl; Cic. Vat. 27; Planc. 36; Schol. Bob. 97, 149-150 Stangl; Cic. Vat. 36; Prov. Cons. 36-37; Liv. Per. 103; Vell. 2.44.5; Suet. Iul. 22; Plut. Cae. 14; Pomp. 48.3; Crass. 14.3; Cat. Min. 33.3; App. BC 2.13; Dio 38.8.5; Oros. 6.7.1; Schol. Bob. 146 Stangl; Suet. Iul. 28.3; cf. Cic. Att. 5.11.2; Strabo 5.1.6; Plut. Caes. 29.2; App. BC 2.26; Cic. Vat. 29; cf. Att. 2.9. 1; Fam. 1.9.7; Cic. Att. 2.24.2-4; Sest. 132; Vat. 24-26, with Schol. Bob. 139 Stangl; Suet. Iul. 20; Plut. Luc. 42.7-8; App. BC 2.12; Dio 38.9. See Lübker 1094.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Scipio (cos. 52) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Fufius Calenus (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Praetor) , 47 BCE (Consul)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 59 BCE (Consul) , 47 BCE (Dictator)

    Gutta (not in RE) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

    P. Plautius Hypsaeus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 55 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Praetor

    Broughton: By means of bribery, obstruction and violence Pompey and Crassus secured his election to the exclusion of Cato. (MRR2)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. QF 2.7.3; Fam. 1.9.19; Liv. Per. 105; Val. Max. 7.5.6; Plut. Cat. Min. 42; Pomp. 52; Mo 39.32.1-2; cf. Quintil. Imt. Or. 6.1.13; 9.2.25; See Lübker no. 2.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Scipio (cos. 52) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Fufius Calenus (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Praetor) , 47 BCE (Consul)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 59 BCE (Consul) , 47 BCE (Dictator)

    Gutta (not in RE) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

    P. Plautius Hypsaeus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

  4. 47 BCE
    (aged 48)
    Consul · Co-consul: Q. Fufius Calenus

    Broughton: They were elected after Caesar's return from the East in September (a). See below, Legates.

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.779, 939; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 133, 498f.; Fast. Ost., ibid. 182; Fast. Amer., ibid. 242, with Iulius for Fufiu.9; Dio 42, Index; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.
      • (a) Dio 42.55.4; cf. on Vatinius, Macrob. 2.3.5
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Scipio (cos. 52) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Fufius Calenus (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Praetor) , 47 BCE (Consul)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 59 BCE (Consul) , 47 BCE (Dictator)

    Gutta (not in RE) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

    P. Plautius Hypsaeus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.