Consuls
Broughton: Metellus died early in the year (a). Cilicia was withdrawn from the command of Lucullus and assigned to Marcius (b; see 67, Promagistrates). A brother of Metellus Creticus, and son of C. Metellus Caprarius and grandson of Q. Metellus Macedonicus (c).
Sources (4)
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Broughton, MRR2
- CIL 12.2.905, 956; Dio 36.4.1; Chr. 354 (Metello et Vatia); Fast. Hyd. (Marcio Rege et Metello), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Marcius, CIL 12.2.747, and perhaps 660 (but see 118, Consuls). See Degrassi 131, 488f.
- (a) Dio 36.4.1
- (b) Dio 36.2.2; cf. Suet. Iul. 8
- (c) Cic. Verr. 1.27; CIL 12.2.746
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Q. Marcius Rex (): 71 BCE (Praetor) , 68 BCE (Consul)
L. Afranius (): 71 BCE (Praetor)
Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Cn. Aufidius Orestes (): 71 BCE (Consul)
Broughton: Metellus died early in the year (a). Cilicia was withdrawn from the command of Lucullus and assigned to Marcius (b; see 67, Promagistrates).
Sources (3)
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Broughton, MRR2
- CIL 12.2.905, 956; Dio 36.4.1; Chr. 354 (Metello et Vatia); Fast. Hyd. (Marcio Rege et Metello), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Marcius, CIL 12.2.747, and perhaps 660 (but see 118, Consuls). See Degrassi 131, 488f.
- (a) Dio 36.4.1
- (b) Dio 36.2.2; cf. Suet. Iul. 8
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L. Caecilius Metellus (cos. 68) (): 71 BCE (Praetor) , 68 BCE (Consul)
L. Afranius (): 71 BCE (Praetor)
Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Cn. Aufidius Orestes (): 71 BCE (Consul)
Praetors
Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law.
Sources (1)
- MRR2
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Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Manlius Torquatus (cos. 65) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Quinctius (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Sergius Catilina (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Broughton: Captured in his robes of office by the pirates (a). See below, on Sextillus. Plutarch's text has the name Bellinus, but Bellienus is a probable emendation to a name known in this period (RE). The year is uncertain but cannot be long before 67.
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Plut. Pomp. 24.6; c Cic. Leg. Man. 32-33 and 53; App. Mith. 93
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C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Manlius Torquatus (cos. 65) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Quinctius (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Sergius Catilina (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
P. Autronius Paetus (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Broughton: See 67, Promagistrates. Cf. Val. Max, 9.12.7, praetorius
Sources (1)
- MRR2
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Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Manlius Torquatus (cos. 65) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Quinctius (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Sergius Catilina (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
P. Autronius Paetus (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law.
Sources (1)
- MRR2
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Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Manlius Torquatus (cos. 65) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Quinctius (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Sergius Catilina (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Broughton: See 67, Promagistrates; The latest date possible under the Cornelian law. The precise order of the governors of Asia between the decision to end the command of Lucullus in 69 and the arrival of P. Orbius in 64 remains uncertain. Dolabella was the Praetor in charge of the trial of Caecina in 69 or 68 (see 69, Praetors), and was therefore Proconsul of Asia in 68 or 67. L. Manlius Torquatus, whose title, though not his province, is attested by an inscription of Miletus (a), held the consulship in 65, and his praetorship may tentatively be dated in 68, and his proconsulship (almost certainly in Asia) in 67, since he was not likely to be delayed in his career. Dolabella may then be placed in Asia in 68. For the remaining two years we have T. Aufidius and P. Varinius. Their dates are not independently attested but they did follow immediately in this order (b). If Aufidius is the possible candidate named by Cicero (Att. 1.1.1) for the consulship of 63, his praetorship should be dated in 66 and his command in Asia in 65. Lange (3.185, and 206) held that Varinius proceeded to Asia in 72 after his praetorship and defeat at the hands of Spartacus and that Lucullus became governor of Asia only in 71. It seems more probable that Lucullus held Asia from the beginning of 73 at the latest (see 74, Promagistrates, on Lucullus; and Addendum). Reasons for the interval in the case of Varinius are not given, but the career of C. Antonius after his expulsion from the Senate in 70 affords a possible parallel, and suggests that Varinius repeated his career to the praetorship in 66 . There is no evidence that Q. Voconius Naso (Iudex Quaestionis in 66, and Praetor sometime before 60) was ever a governor of Asia at all. See Broughton, TAPhA 79 (1948) 67-72, with criticism of the lists of Chapot and Waddington; Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor 2.1127f., note 47.
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Wiegand, 6 vorläufiger Bericht, APAW 1908, Anhang 20
- (b) Cic. Flacc. 45
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L. Aurelius Cotta (cos. 65) (): 65 BCE (Consul)
Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Quinctius (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Sergius Catilina (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Broughton: Active in moving to send successors to the provinces of Lucullus (a). Tribune of the Plebs in 74. His activity in the praetorship must have begun before Cilicia was taken from Lucullus, most probably upon receipt of news of the campaign of 69.
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Plut. Luc. 33.5; cf. Sall. Hist. 4.71 M
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Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Manlius Torquatus (cos. 65) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Sergius Catilina (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
P. Autronius Paetus (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Broughton: See 67, Promagistrates, and note.
Sources (1)
- MRR2
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Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Manlius Torquatus (cos. 65) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Quinctius (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Sergius Catilina (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Broughton: See 67, Promagistrates. According to Asconius (85, and 89 C) Catiline became governor of Africa ex practura, and after his term returned to Rome in time to present himself as a candidate for the consulship of 65. His praetorship must therefore be dated in 68 at the latest, which is also the latest possible year under the Cornelian law.
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Broughton, MRR2
- Ascon. 85, and 89 C.
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Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Manlius Torquatus (cos. 65) (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
L. Quinctius (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
P. Autronius Paetus (): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Quaestors
Broughton: He was absent from Rome in this and perhaps previous years (a), hence Münzer conjectures that he held his quaestorship during this period (RE).
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Cic. Att. 1.5.2and 8, cf. 8.1
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C. Julius Caesar (): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)
C. Vergilius Balbus (): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)
M. Calpurnius Bibulus (): 65 BCE (Aedile) , 62 BCE (Praetor)
C. Papirius Carbo (pr. 62) (): 62 BCE (Praetor)
L. Licinius Murena (cos. 62) (): 65 BCE (Praetor) , 62 BCE (Consul)
Tribune of the Plebs
MT: Broughton explains the attestation of the tribunes in a single note, citing the Lex Antonia (to restore freedom to Termessus, modern Antalya Turkey) and CIL 12.2.744.
Sources (1)
- Broughton, MRR2
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C. Antonius Hibrida (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Fundanius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Popilius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
Cn. Cornelius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
Broughton: This list of at least nine, and perhaps all ten, of the Tribunes of this year is secured by combining the three names preserved in the prescript of the Lex Antonia with the names preserved in CIL 12.2.744, where all or part of all ten names appears. They are all names of Tribunes (see commentary in CIL), except perhaps the fragmentary name of a Curator Viarum, which comes last in the list above. Caesar, probably before his aedileship (Plut. Caes. 5.5), and Minucius Thermus, when a candidate for the consulship undertook curatorships, Caesar of the Appian, and Minucius of the Flaminian, way (Cic. Att. 1.1.2). Volcatius therefore, if his name is correctly restored, could possibly be the Consul of 66. Mommsen however has shown that the Tribunes were concerned with public works in the city (Ges. Schr. 3.27 ff., and comm. on CIL 12.2.744), and interprets no. 751 on the builder of the Pens Fabricius to mean that Fabricius as Curator Viarum was at the same time one of the Tribunes (62 B. C.). The date of this college of Tribunes remains not altogether certain. It is of necessity later than the date mentioned in the Lex Antonia (Apr. 1, 72), and cannot be placed in 69 (see 69, Tribunes), or in the years of the tribunates of Plautius (see 70), or of Lollius Palicanus (see 71). Mommsen's suggestion of 72 would be possible if Tribunes at that time had the right to propose legislation, but Mommsen's chief evidence that they had this right, contrary to what both Cicero (Leg. 3.2.2) and Caesar (BC 1.7.3) imply, seems to be this very law (Str. 2.312, note 1, and 3.158). The law therefore is probably subsequent to the restoration of the powers of the tribunate. By elimination 68 appears to be the most probable year. The date in 72 chosen as a point of reference in the law for the regulation of arrangements with Termessus must be based on a situation in Asia or in Termessus itself during the Third Mithridatic War. Note also that a date in 68 probably reveals a stage in the career of Antonius after his expulsion from the Senate in 70. On the Lex Antonia, see Magic, Roman Rule in Asia Minor, 1.295; 2.1176f., note 34 (MRR2)
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- CIL 12.2.744; Plut. Caes. 5.5; Cic. Att. 1.1.2; Ges. Schr. 3.27 ff., and comm. on CIL 12.2.744; Apr. 1, 72; Cic. Leg. 3.2.2; Caesar (BC 1.7.3);
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M. Tullius Cicero (): 66 BCE (Praetor) , 63 BCE (Consul)
Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Praetor)
C. Aquilius Gallus (): 66 BCE (Praetor)
C. Orchivius (): 66 BCE (Praetor)
L. Cassius Longinus (pr. 66) (): 66 BCE (Praetor)
MT: Broughton explains the attestation of the tribunes in a single note, citing the Lex Antonia (to restore freedom to Termessus, modern Antalya Turkey) and CIL 12.2.744. Question remains around which Quintus Caecilius was tribune in this year: Celer or Nepos?
Sources (1)
- Broughton, MRR2
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(): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)
C. Antonius Hibrida (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Consul)
Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)
L. Afranius (): 60 BCE (Consul)
L. Roscius Otho (): 67 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Praetor)
MT: Broughton explains the attestation of the tribunes in a single note, citing the Lex Antonia (to restore freedom to Termessus, modern Antalya Turkey) and CIL 12.2.744. Question remains around which Quintus Caecilius was tribune in this year: Celer or Nepos?
Sources (1)
- Broughton, MRR2
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P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) (): 60 BCE (Praetor) , 57 BCE (Consul)
Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)
(): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Consul)
L. Culleolus (): 60 BCE (Praetor)
M. Attius Balbus (): 60 BCE (Praetor)
MT: Syme (JRS 53, 1963, 56-60-RP 2.559-563) identifies the Cn. Cornelius (24), Tr. pl. 68 (see MRR 2.138; ILLRP 465a), with the future consul of 56 (MRR3). If this is true we have a duplicate Cn. Cornelius (the two are linked as related for now)
Sources (1)
- Broughton, MRR3
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(): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Antius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Antonius Hibrida (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Fundanius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Popilius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
MT: Syme (JRS 53, 1963, 56-60-RP 2.559-563) identifies the Cn. Cornelius (24), Tr. pl. 68 (see MRR 2.138; ILLRP 465a), with the future consul of 56 (MRR3). If this is true we have a duplicate Cn. Cornelius (the two are linked as related for now)
Sources (1)
- Broughton, MRR3
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P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) (): 74 BCE (Quaestor) , 60 BCE (Praetor)
Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)
L. Marcius Philippus (cos. 56) (): 56 BCE (Consul)
Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Consul)
L. Culleolus (): 60 BCE (Praetor)
MT: Broughton explains the attestation of the tribunes in a single note, citing the Lex Antonia (to restore freedom to Termessus, modern Antalya Turkey) and CIL 12.2.744.
Sources (1)
- Broughton, MRR2
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C. Antius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Antonius Hibrida (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Popilius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
Cn. Cornelius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
MT: Broughton explains the attestation of the tribunes in a single note, citing the Lex Antonia (to restore freedom to Termessus, modern Antalya Turkey) and CIL 12.2.744.
Sources (1)
- Broughton, MRR2
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C. Antius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Antonius Hibrida (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Fundanius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
C. Popilius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)
Cn. Cornelius (): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)