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Lucius Munatius Plancus

Consul in 42 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 45 BCE
    (aged 44)
    Praetor

    Broughton: Prefect of the city (see below), and probably Praetor, since he was a Legate in 46, and became Proconsul of Transalpine Gaul in 44 (see 46, Legates, and 44, Promagistrates).

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (cos. 46) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 42 BCE (Consul)

    A. Pompeius Bithynicus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    D. Junius Brutus Albinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Aelius Lamia (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 45 BCE (Aedile) , 42 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 42 BCE
    (aged 47)
    Consul · Co-consul: M. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (cos. 46)

    Broughton: The Consuls carried a law regarding grants of citizenship and immunity (a); and Plancus, besides saving some of the proscribed (b), began to distribute land to soldiers at Beneventum. (c). On Lepidus, see Triumviri R.P.C.

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Bull. Com. 68 (1940) 200. no. 2; Fast. Amit., Degrassi 170f.; Fad. Amer., ibid. 242; Fast. Colot., ibid. 273f., Fast. Mag. Vic.; ibid. 282f.; and see also ibid. 135 and 504f.; Vell. 2.67.3-4; Plin. NH 2.99; Suet. Tib. 5; Dio 47, Index, and 16.1; Obseq. 70; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Zonar. 10. 18; on Lepidus, App. BC 4.3; on Plancus, as Cos. Desig., Cic. Fam. 10.6.1 and 3; 10.8, prescript, and 20.2; 11.15.1; Phil. 3.38; Vell. 2.63.3; Dio 46.53.1; and as Cos., CIL 6.1316-ILS 41; 10.6087-ILS 886; App. BC 4.37, and 45.
      • (a) Inscription of Rhosos, Font. Iur. Rom. Anteiustinian. ed. Riccobono, et al., 1.308ff., no. 55, line 10
      • (b) App. BC 4.37, and 45
      • (c) CIL 10.6087-ILS 886
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (cos. 46) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 42 BCE (Consul)

    A. Pompeius Bithynicus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    D. Junius Brutus Albinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Aelius Lamia (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 45 BCE (Aedile) , 42 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Siblings
    Lucius Plotius Plancus Titus Munatius Plancus