Marcus Caelius Rufus edit

Career

1. 57 BCE
   Quaestor edit

   From DPPR: Quaestor 57? Caelius' curule aedileship in 50 and his praetorship in 48 suggest that, unless he had won some special exemption, he was born in 88 and Pliny (NH 7.165) is mistaken in making him and Calvus the same age. His quaestorship is not explictly mentioned, and Austin thinks it was omitted (Pro Caelio, App. 1), but this office, almost without exception, was the beginning of a senatorial career in the first century, whatever insignia or distinctions his successful prosecution of the consular C. Antonius may have given him. As Sumner has noted, Cicero states that he was already at the age for candidacy in 58 (Cael. 18, cum ... per aetatem magistratus petere posset), and in 56 the hinting of his prosecutors that he had engaged in ambitus (Cael. 78) is consistent at least with candidacy in 59 or 58. See Sumner, Phoenix 25, 1971, 247-248; Orators 146-147. But Cicero's silence regarding it is strange, and the possibility of an exemption remains. See H. E. Russell, Advancement in Rank under the Republic as a Reward for the Soldier and the Public Prosecutor (Diss. Bryn Mawr College, 1950, microfilm). (Broughton MRR III)

2. 52 BCE
   Tribune of the Plebs edit
3. 50 BCE
   Aedile ·curule edit

   He repeatedly begged Cicero to send him panthers from Cilicia for his games (a). He prosecuted persons who were diverting water from the aqueducts (b). See above, Censors, on his quarrel with Appius Claudius.

4. 48 BCE
   Praetor ·peregrinus edit

   Pressed measures for suspension of payments of interest, rents, and debts illegally against the opposition of his colleagues until he was suspended from office by the Consul Servilius; and later was killed by soldiers while attempting with Milo to raise a revolt in Italy (a).

Family