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Lucius Licinius Murena (cos. 62)

Consul in 62 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 74 BCE
    Quaestor

    Broughton: MRR2: Licinius Murena and Sulpicius Rufus were colleagues in the quaestorship (a), with careers closely parallel to that of Cicero. As they are not named as colleagues of Cicero, and Murena soon afterwards became a Legate under Lucullus (see 73, Legates), I list them as Quaestors in 74.

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

    Ser. Sulpicius Rufus (cos. 51) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 74 BCE (Quaestor) , 65 BCE (Praetor)

    D. Junius Silanus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 62 BCE (Consul)

    C. Attius Celsus RE (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Vergilius Balbus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 65 BCE
    Praetor ·urban

    MT: No further comments in MRR2

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

    Ser. Sulpicius Rufus (cos. 51) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 74 BCE (Quaestor) , 65 BCE (Praetor)

    D. Junius Silanus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 62 BCE (Consul)

    C. Attius Celsus RE (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Vergilius Balbus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 62 BCE
    Consul · Co-consul: D. Junius Silanus

    Broughton: On the election of Silanus, and his part as Consul Designate in the debate in the Senate on the Catilinarian conspirators (a). Murena was prosecuted for bribery in his election, and defended successfully by Cicero (b). He voted to condemn the conspirators (c), and as Consul protected Cato during the disturbances at the beginning of the year (d). The two Consuls carried a law requiring copies of all proposed legislation to be deposited in the treasury (e).

    Sources (6)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.910, 911, 2663b; Cic. Flacc. 30; Fast. Amit., Degrassi 170f.; Dio 37, Index, and 39.1; Eutrop. 6.16; Chr. 354 (Silano et Murena); Fast. Hyd. (Silana et Murena); Chr. Pasc. (#); Cassiod. See Degrassi 131, 490f.
      • (a) Cic. Cat. 4.7 and 11; Att. 12.21.1; Phil. 2.12; Sall. Cat. 50.4; 51.16; Plut. Cic. 14.6; 19.1; 20.3; 21.3; Cat. Min. 21.2; 22-23; App. BC 2.5-6; cf. Plut. Caes. 8.1; Dio 37.36; Schol. Gron. 287 Stangl
      • (b) Cic. Mur., passim; Flacc. 98; Fin. 4.74; Quintil. Inst. Or. 4.1.75; 6.1.35; 11.1.69; Plin. Epist. 1.20.7; Plut. Cic. 14.6; 35.3; Cat. Min. 21.3-6; Inim. Util. 9
      • (c) Cic. Dom. 134; Att. 12.21.1
      • (d) Plut. Cat. Min. 28.2-3, cf. 21.6; see Tribunes of the Plebs
      • (e) Cic. Att. 2.9.1; 4.16.5; Sest. 135; Vat. 33; Phil. 5.8; Leg. 3.11 and 46; Suet. Iul. 28.3; ,Schol. Bob. 140 Stangl
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Ser. Sulpicius Rufus (cos. 51) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 74 BCE (Quaestor) , 65 BCE (Praetor)

    D. Junius Silanus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 62 BCE (Consul)

    C. Attius Celsus RE (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Vergilius Balbus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

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