42 BCE · Magistrates

Consuls

M. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (cos. 46)

5 magistracies , aged 48 at this time

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

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C. Julius Caesar (): 59 BCE (Consul) , 49 BCE (Dictator) , 46 BCE (Consul, Dictator)

M. Favonius (): 59 BCE (Quaestor) , 49 BCE (Praetor)

L. Munatius Plancus

2 magistracies , aged 47 at this time

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

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L. Aelius Lamia (): 45 BCE (Aedile) , 42 BCE (Praetor)

Praetors

L

L. Aelius Lamia

uncertain

3 magistracies

Broughton: a candidate in 43 (a).

Sources (2)

Broughton, MRR2
- Plin. NH 7.173, praetorio viro;
- (a) Cic. Fam. 11.16.3, and 17. 1

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P. Ventidius Bassus (): 45 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 43 BCE (Consul, Praetor)

L. Munatius Plancus (): 45 BCE (Praetor) , 42 BCE (Consul)

P

P. Alfenus Varus

probable

2 magistracies

Broughton: The latest date legally possible under the Cornelian law, but in this extraordinary period, as the case of Ventidius Bassus in 43 reveals, legal provisions regarding the holding of offices and the intervals between them were frequently disregarded.

Sources (1)

Broughton, MRR2

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C. Cocceius Balbus (): 42 BCE (Praetor) , 39 BCE (Consul)

G

C. Cocceius Balbus

probable

2 magistracies

Broughton: The latest date legally possible under the Cornelian law, but in this extraordinary period, as the case of Ventidius Bassus in 43 reveals, legal provisions regarding the holding of offices and the intervals between them were frequently disregarded. On Cocceius, see (a).

Sources (1)

Broughton, MRR2
- (a) PIR² 2.2 8 8, no. 1212; De Laet no. 118

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P. Alfenus Varus (): 42 BCE (Praetor) , 39 BCE (Consul)

T

Ti. Claudius Nero (pr. 42)

2 magistracies , aged 47 at this time

Broughton: Suet. Tib. 4, where it is implied that his year of office preceded that of the outbreak of the Perusine war.

Sources (2)

Broughton, MRR2
- Vell. 2.75. 1, a praetorius in 40
- Suet. Tib. 4

G

C. Furnius

2 magistracies , aged 53 at this time

Broughton: A candidate in 43 (a), who would probably go on to the office with Plancus' support. See (b).

Sources (2)

Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Cic. Fam. 10.25, and 26
- (b) PIR² 3.232, no. 590

Aediles

V

Villius Annalis

1 magistracy

Broughton: Son of an ex-Praetor who was rewarded for betraying his father by election to the aedileship, presumably for 42, but was killed while in office by soldiers (a). See 58, Praetors; Lübker no. 3.

Sources (1)

Broughton, MRR2
- (a) App. BC 4.18; cf. Val. Max. 9.11.6

Quaestors

L

L. Plaetorius Cestianus (q. 42)

probable

1 magistracy

Broughton: Perhaps a Quaestor under Brutus (a).

Sources (1)

Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Grueber, CRRBM 2.479

Tribune of the Plebs

L

L. Clodius

1 magistracy

Broughton: Tribune Designate (a). No evidence is preserved regarding his year of office, but as he had Antony's support it is probable that he held it in this year.

Sources (1)

Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Cic. Ad Brut. 1.1.1

T

Tullus Hostilius

1 magistracy

Broughton: Tribune Designate in 43 (a).

Sources (1)

Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Cic. Phil. 13.26; cf. Phil. 12.20; Obseq. 70; and see Niccolini FTP 360

M

M. Insteius

1 magistracy

Broughton: Tribune Designate in 43 (a; cf. Phil. 12.20; and for his praenomen, b).

Sources (2)

Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Cic. Phil. 13.26
- (b) Plut. Ant. 65.1

R

Rufrenus (tr. pl. 42)

1 magistracy

Broughton: Probably a Tribune of the Plebs, and author of the Lex Rufrena regarding the placing of statues of the Divus Iulius in the municipia (a). See Niccolini, FTP 444.

Sources (1)

Broughton, MRR2
- (a) CIL 12.2.797-ILS 73; CIL 12.2.798-ILS 73a