Consuls
Broughton: Cotta carried a law permitting Tribunes of the Plebs to attain other magistracies (a). He also concluded a treaty with King Hiempsal of Numidia (b), and carried two laws, one affecting private cases (c), and the other censorial leases (d), both abrogated the following year. A shortage in the grain supply occasioned the speech recorded in Sallust (e).
Sources (6)
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Broughton, MRR2
- CIL 12.2.953; Cic. Verr. 2.1.130, and 3.18; Sall. Hist. 2.42M; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 130, 486 f. (L. O[cta]vius Cn. f. Cn. n., C. Aur[el]ius M. f. [- n. C]ot [ta]); Obseq. 60; Chr. 354 (Octavio et Cotta); Cassiod.; and on Cotta, Cic. Pis. 62; Ascon. 66 C.
- (a) Cic. Corn. in Ascon. 66, and 7SC; Sall. Hist. 2.49M; 3.48.8M; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 255 Stangi
- (b) Cic. Leg. Agr. 2.58
- (c) Cic. Corn. 1.9 and Ascon. 66C
- (d) Cic. Verr. 2.3.19, cf. 18 and 130; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 251 Stangl
- (e) Sall. Hist. 2.44-48M
Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member
C. Aurelius Cotta (): 78 BCE (Praetor) , 75 BCE (Consul)
L. Licinius Lucullus (): 78 BCE (Praetor)
L. Valerius Trianius (): 78 BCE (Praetor)
Terentius Varro (): 78 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Sacerdos (): 75 BCE (Praetor)
Broughton: Cotta carried a law permitting Tribunes of the Plebs to attain other magistracies (a). He also concluded a treaty with King Hiempsal of Numidia (b), and carried two laws, one affecting private cases (c), and the other censorial leases (d), both abrogated the following year. A shortage in the grain supply occasioned the speech recorded in Sallust (e).
Sources (6)
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Broughton, MRR2
- CIL 12.2.953; Cic. Verr. 2.1.130, and 3.18; Sall. Hist. 2.42M; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 130, 486 f. (L. O[cta]vius Cn. f. Cn. n., C. Aur[el]ius M. f. [- n. C]ot [ta]); Obseq. 60; Chr. 354 (Octavio et Cotta); Cassiod.; and on Cotta, Cic. Pis. 62; Ascon. 66 C.
- (a) Cic. Corn. in Ascon. 66, and 7SC; Sall. Hist. 2.49M; 3.48.8M; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 255 Stangi
- (b) Cic. Leg. Agr. 2.58
- (c) Cic. Corn. 1.9 and Ascon. 66C
- (d) Cic. Verr. 2.3.19, cf. 18 and 130; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 251 Stangl
- (e) Sall. Hist. 2.44-48M
Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member
L. Octavius (): 78 BCE (Praetor) , 75 BCE (Consul)
L. Licinius Lucullus (): 78 BCE (Praetor)
L. Valerius Trianius (): 78 BCE (Praetor)
Terentius Varro (): 78 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Sacerdos (): 75 BCE (Praetor)
Praetors
MT: No further comments in MRR2
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- Cic. Verr. 2.1.130.
Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law.
Sources (1)
- MRR2
Broughton: See 74, Promagistrates
Sources (1)
- MRR2
MT: Broughton lists Furius as "Q. de repetundis or L. Turius"
Sources (1)
- MRR2
Broughton: Presided over the first trial of a certain Terentius Varro, probably A. Terentius Varro (see 82, Legates; 77, Promagistrates), for extortion in Asia (a). The trial was postponed, and became a notorious case in the next year (see 74, Praetors, on Lentulus Sura; and on the date, Cic. Cluent. 130; Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor 2.1125, note 42). Cicero (Brut. 237) mentions L. Turius, a Praetor and a candidate for the consulship in this period.
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Ps.-Ascon. 193 (Furius), and 218 Stangl; Schol. Gron. 349 Stangl; Porphyrio (C. Turius) and Ps.-Acro (Turius Marinus) on Hor. Sat. 2.1.49; cf. Cic. Div. in Caec. 24; Verr. 1.17, 35, 40, 47
MT: No further comments in MRR2
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- Cic. Verr. 2.1.130, cf. 104, 121, 125; 2.2.22 and 68; Ascon. 82C; Ps.-Ascon. 251 Stangl.
Aediles
Broughton: He gave splendid games (a), and made a distribution of grain to the populace (b, and above, Consuls, on Cotta).
Sources (3)
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Broughton, MRR2
- Cic. Brut. 318
- (a) Cic. Off. 2.57; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 238 Stangl
- (b) Cic. Verr. 2.3.215; cf. Sall. Hist. 2.45-47M;
Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member
Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus (): 69 BCE (Consul)
Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (): 75 BCE (Praetor) , 72 BCE (Consul)
Cn. Manlius (): 72 BCE (Praetor)
M. Pupius Piso Frugi (cos. 61) (): 72 BCE (Praetor)
C. Junius (): 75 BCE (Aedile)
Broughton: Iunius was aedilicius and Iudex Quaestionis in 74 (Cic.), probably in the year following his aedileship. See 65, and 64, on Caesar.
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- Cic. Cluent. 79.
Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member
Q. Hortensius Hortalus (): 75 BCE (Aedile)
C. Aurelius Cotta (): 75 BCE (Consul)
C. Licinius Sacerdos (): 75 BCE (Praetor)
Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (): 75 BCE (Praetor)
L. Furius (): 75 BCE (Praetor)
Quaestors
Broughton: A colleague of Cicero in this office (a).
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Cic. Sull. 18
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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: Sent to Cyrene (a). See Münzer (RE) on the question whether he should be identified with P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, Cos. 57, and (perhaps or) the P. Lentulus P. f. L. n,. Quaestor, who is named on coins of this period (b).
Sources (2)
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Sall. Hist. 2.43M, in 75, Maurenbrecher, or 74, Münzer, RE
- (b) Grueber, CRRBM 1.406
Broughton: Served under Sex. Peducaeus in western Sicily (a).
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Cic. P. Red. in Sen. 21; Div. in Caec. 2; Verr. 2.3.182, and 215-216, and 4.74, and 5.35; Planc. 64-65; Brut. 318; Tusc. 5.64; Fam. 13.38; Plut. Cic. 1.4; 6.1-4; Com. Dem. and Cic. 3.2; Ps.-Ascon. 185, 186, 261 Stangl
Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member
C. Antonius Hibrida (): 66 BCE (Praetor) , 63 BCE (Consul)
M. Caesonius (): 69 BCE (Aedile) , 66 BCE (Praetor)
P. Sulpicius Galba (): 69 BCE (Aedile) , 66 BCE (Praetor)
Q. Cornificius (): 69 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 66 BCE (Praetor)
C. Aquilius Gallus (): 66 BCE (Praetor)
Tribune of the Plebs
Broughton: Condemned in 74 for using his veto contrary to the Cornelian laws (a). Said to have supported Cotta's law regarding the tribunate (Ps.-Ascon. 255 Stangl; see above, Consuls).
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Cic. Verr. 2.1.155-157; cf. Schol. Gron. 341 Stangl