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Lucius Caninius Gallus

Consul in 37 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 56 BCE
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Sought to give Pompey, rather than Lentulus Spinther, the duty of restoring the Egyptian King (a).

    Sources (1)
    Career-overlap (3) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Vipsanius Agrippa (): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    T. Statilius Taurus (): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Domitius Calvinus (cos. 53) (): 56 BCE (Praetor) , 40 BCE (Consul)

  2. 40 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law, and probable, even in a period of many irregularities, since Agrippa (see below) was his colleague also in 37.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
    Career-overlap (3) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Vipsanius Agrippa (): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    T. Statilius Taurus (): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Domitius Calvinus (cos. 53) (): 56 BCE (Praetor) , 40 BCE (Consul)

  3. 37 BCE
    Consul · Co-consuls: M. Vipsanius Agrippa, T. Statilius Taurus

    Broughton: Agrippa had probably been placed in charge in 38 of the preparation and training of a new fleet against Sextus Pompey (see 38, Triumviri B. P. C., on Octavian, and Promagistrates, on Agrippa). He spent much of the year building the protected Lucrine harbour, equipping the vessels and training the crews (a). Precisely when Agrippa also became admiral in succession to Calvisius (see Promagistrates, on Calvisius), is not certain, but it was probably early in the year. (See b) On Agrippa, see (c).

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 11.6673, 18; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 58f. (M. Agrippa L. f.), 135, 506f.; Fast. Mag. Vic., ibid. 282, 288; Fast. Biond., ibid. 291f.; Joseph. AJ 14.487; Dio 48, Index, and 49.4; 49.24.1; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Agrippa, CIL 4.2437.
      • (a) Dio 48.49-51; cf. Verg. Georg. 2.161-164, and Serv. ad loc.; Liv. Per. 128; Strabo 5.4.6; Vell. 2.79.2-3; Senec. Benef. 6.32.3; Plin. NH 36.125; Suet. Aug. 16.1; Flor. 2.18.6; Serv. Dan. on Verg. Aen. 8.682, and Serv. on 693; Cassiod. Chr. ad ann.; and on the ships and weapons, App. BC 5.106 and 118
      • (b) Grant, From Imperium to Auctoritas 46, on a coin inscribed Orae [maritimae et] clas(sis) Prae(fectus).
      • (c) Reinhold, Marcus Agrippa 28-35; De Lact no. 420; on Caninius, PIR² 2.92, no. 389
    Career-overlap (3) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Vipsanius Agrippa (): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    T. Statilius Taurus (): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Domitius Calvinus (cos. 53) (): 56 BCE (Praetor) , 40 BCE (Consul)

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