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Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus (cos. 53)

Consul in 53 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 59 BCE
    (aged 30)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: One of the three Tribunes who opposed Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus (a).

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Cic. Sest. 113; Vat. 16; Dio 38.6.1; Schol. Bob. 135, 146f., 151 Stangl
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Qunitus Ancharius (pr. 56) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.556, final 0.556): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 56 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

    M. Valerius Messalla Rufus (cos. 53) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 53 BCE (Consul)

    P. Canidius Crassus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

  2. 56 BCE
    (aged 33)
    Praetor ·Quaestio de ambitu

    Broughton: Presided at the trial of Bestia de ambitu (a), perhaps also at that of Caelius de vi (b; but see Iudex quaestionis). See also (c)

    Sources (3)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Cic. QF 2.3.6
      • (b) Cic. Cael. 32
      • (c) Cic. Sest. 113; Vat. 16, and 35; Schol. Bob. 135, 146, 151 Stangl.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Qunitus Ancharius (pr. 56) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.556, final 0.556): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 56 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

    M. Valerius Messalla Rufus (cos. 53) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 53 BCE (Consul)

    P. Canidius Crassus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

  3. 53 BCE
    (aged 36)
    Consul · Co-consul: M. Valerius Messalla Rufus (cos. 53)

    Broughton: Their election delayed by the scandals of 54 (see 54, Consuls) and the subsequent disorders, they finally entered office in July (a). Their attempts in turn to hold the elections for 52 were frustrated by the rowdyism of the consular candidates Milo and Plautius Hypsaeus and the praetorian candidate Clodius (b).

    Sources (3)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.930, cf. 944, 2663c; Cic. QF 3.8.3; Ascon. 48 C; Plut. Pomp. 54.3; Dio 40, Index, and 17.1; Chr. 354 (Carvino et Messalla); Fast. Hyd. (Balbino et Messala), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Macrob. Sat. 1.9.14. See Degrassi 132, 494f.; and on Valerius, Münzer, Gent. Val. 53, no. 60.
      • (a) Plut. Pomp. 54.2-3; Dio 40.45.1; cf. Cic. QF 3.8.3-4, and 9.2-5; Fam. 2.5.2; App. BC 3.19
      • (b) Cic. Aer. Alien. Mil. fr. 7, and Schol. Bob. 172 Stangl; Dio 40.46.2-3; cf. Cic. Mil. passim, esp. 24ff.; Ascon. 30-31 C
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Qunitus Ancharius (pr. 56) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.556, final 0.556): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 56 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

    M. Valerius Messalla Rufus (cos. 53) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 53 BCE (Consul)

    P. Canidius Crassus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

  4. 40 BCE
    (aged 49)
    Consul · Co-consuls: C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40), L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40), P. Canidius Crassus

    Broughton: After Perusia fell to Octavian Pollio retreated to Venetia where in the course of several months he won Domitius Ahenobarbus over to Antony and prepared the way for the latter to land in Italy (a). In this period may be dated his capture of Salona in Dalmatia (b). He aided in reconciling Antony and Octavian at Brundisium (c), and when both Consuls abdicated shortly afterwards received command of Macedonia from Antony (d; see 39, Promagistrates).

    Sources (5)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 10.5159-ILS 3784; Fast. Sacerd., CIL 12.1, p. 60, no. III-ILS 9338, no. 3; Fast. Colot., Degrassi 273-275; Fast. Mag. Vic., ibid. 282, 287; Fast. Biond., ibid. 291f.; ibid. 135, 504f.; Joseph. AJ 14.389; Dio 48, Index, and 15.1, and 32.1; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Domitius, Grueber, CRRBM 2.373; CIL 6.1301-ILS 42; CIL 2.6186; and on Pollio, Verg. Ecl. 4.11-12.
      • (a) Vell. 2.76.2; App. BC 5.35, and 50, and 64; cf. Verg. Ecl. 8.6-7
      • (b) Serv. on Ecl. 3.88, and 4.1 post etiam consutatum adeptus; Serv. Dan. on Ecl. 8.12, who dates it before the peace of Brundisium; cf. Bern. Schol. on Eel. 8.6 and 13; and 4.1, Preface; Iun. Philargyr. I and II on Ecl. 4.1; and 8.13; see 39, Promagistrates, on Pollio
      • (c) App. BC 5.64
      • (d) Dio 48.32.1
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Qunitus Ancharius (pr. 56) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.556, final 0.556): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 56 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

    M. Valerius Messalla Rufus (cos. 53) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 53 BCE (Consul)

    P. Canidius Crassus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.444, final 0.444): 40 BCE (Consul)

🏺 Family

  1. Parents
    Marcus Domitius Calvinus
  2. Children
    Gnaeus Domitius (pr. 54)