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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Consul in 37, 28 and 27 BCE. Close friend and son-in-law of first Emperor Augustus

🏛️ Career

  1. 43 BCE
    (aged 20)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Niccolini (FTP 355) conjectures that he, like Cornificius the accuser of Brutus, prosecuted Cassius under the Pedian law as a Tribune (a). He might have been elected to the place of Servilius Casca.

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

    L. Caninius Gallus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    T. Statilius Taurus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    L. Sempronius Atratinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 40 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 40 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.286, final 0.286): 40 BCE (Consul)

  2. 40 BCE
    (aged 23)
    Praetor

    Broughton: As Praetor Urbanus, he gave the games of Apollo (a). He took an important part in the Perusine war (b), and after the surrender won over two of Plancus' legions (c). He then received command against Sextus Pompey (d), and repelled Antony's attack on Sipontum (e). According to Dio (f) Agrippa brought the Aqua Iulia to Rome in 40 (g). See (h)

    Sources (8)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Dio 48.20.2
      • (b) App. BC 5.35
      • (c) App. BC 5.50
      • (d) App. BC 5.58; Dio 48.20
      • (e) App. BC 5.58; Dio 48.28.1
      • (f) Dio 48.32.3
      • (g) see Frontin. Aq. 1.9; and 33, Aediles
      • (h) Lübker no. 2; PIR 3.439, no. 457; Reinhold, Marcus Agrippa 21-24.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Caninius Gallus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    T. Statilius Taurus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    L. Sempronius Atratinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 40 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 40 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.286, final 0.286): 40 BCE (Consul)

  3. 37 BCE
    (aged 26)
    Consul · Co-consuls: L. Caninius Gallus, 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 (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Caninius Gallus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    T. Statilius Taurus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    L. Sempronius Atratinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 40 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 40 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.286, final 0.286): 40 BCE (Consul)

  4. 33 BCE
    (aged 30)
    Aedile ·curule

    Broughton: Agrippa, as Aedile, probably as Curule Aedile, undertook a huge program of repairs and of new building, aqueducts, including the new Aqua Iulia, and repairs to the Aqua Marcia, drainage, improvement of arrangements for games, distributions, public baths, festivals and gifts, and undertook also the maintenance of his public works (a). He also drove astrologers and quacks from the city (b). Dio (c) dates the building of the Aqua Iulia in his praetorship (d).

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Dio 49.43.1-4, cf. 42.3, probably erroneously dated in 34 in Dio; Strabo 5.3.8; Plin. NH 36.104 and 121, cf. 102; Suet. Aug. 42.1; Frontin. Aq. 1.9-10 and 98-99; and a mutilated inscription, ILS 128-CIL6.31270; see Reinhold, Marcus Agrippa 47-52; Shipley, MAAR 9 [1931] 471.
      • (b) Dio 49.43.5; cf. Tac. Hist. 1.22
      • (c) Dio 48.32.3
      • (d) see Frontin. Aq. 1.9
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Caninius Gallus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    T. Statilius Taurus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 40 BCE (Praetor) , 37 BCE (Consul)

    L. Sempronius Atratinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 40 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 40 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.286, final 0.286): 40 BCE (Consul)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.