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Marcus Caelius Rufus

Praetor in 48 BCE. Former pupil of Cicero, estranged before reconciled. He’s the Caelio in Cicero’s Pro Caelio

🏛️ Career

  1. 57 BCE
    (aged 25)
    Quaestor

    Broughton: 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 (a) is mistaken in making him and Calvus the same age. His quaestorship is not explicitly mentioned, and Austin thinks it was omitted (b), 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 (c), and in 56 the hinting of his prosecutors that he had engaged in ambitus (d) is consistent at least with candidacy in 59 or 58. See (e). 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 (f).

    MT: citation above taken from and confirmed in DPPR

    Sources (6)
    • Broughton, MRR3
      • (a) Pliny NH 7.165
      • (b) Pro Caelio, App. 1
      • (c) Cael. 18, cum ... per aetatem magistratus petere posset
      • (d) Cael. 78
      • (e) Sumner, Phoenix 25, 1971, 247-248; Orators 146-147
      • (f) Diss. Bryn Mawr College, 1950, microfilm
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 48 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Fabius Maximus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Caninius Rebilus (cos. suff. 45) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Rabirius Curtius Postumus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sallustius Crispus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 52 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 48 BCE (Quaestor)

  2. 52 BCE
    (aged 30)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Supported Milo (a), and joined Cicero in the defence of M. Saufeius (b).

    Sources (2)
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 48 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Fabius Maximus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Caninius Rebilus (cos. suff. 45) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Rabirius Curtius Postumus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sallustius Crispus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 52 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 48 BCE (Quaestor)

  3. 50 BCE
    (aged 32)
    Aedile ·curule

    Broughton: 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.

    Sources (3)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Fam. 2.9-15; Brut. 273; Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8.2.2, and 3. 1, and 4.3, and 9.1.
      • (a) Fam. 8.2.2, and 4.5, and 6.5, and 8.10, and 9.3; cf. 2.11.2; Att. 6.1.21; Plut. Cic. 36.5
      • (b) Fam. 8.6.4; Frontin. Aq. 2.76
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 48 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Fabius Maximus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Caninius Rebilus (cos. suff. 45) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Rabirius Curtius Postumus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sallustius Crispus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 52 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 48 BCE (Quaestor)

  4. 48 BCE
    (aged 34)
    Praetor ·peregrinus

    Broughton: 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).

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Caes. BC 3.20.1-22.4; Dio 42.22.1-25.3; cf. Cic. Fam. 8.17; Liv. Per. 111; Vell. 2.68.1-3; Quintil. Inst. Or. 6.3.25; Oros. 6.15.10; Jerome Chr. ad ann. 48, p. 156 Helm
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 48 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Fabius Maximus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Caninius Rebilus (cos. suff. 45) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Rabirius Curtius Postumus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sallustius Crispus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 52 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 48 BCE (Quaestor)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.