Publius Vatinius edit

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

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Career

63 BCE

Quaestor edit

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

Tribune of the Plebs edit

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)
55 BCE

Praetor edit

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

Consul edit

They were elected after Caesar's return from the East in September (MRR2)

No family relations recorded.