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Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol MRR2 This file has been produced by Tim Yung Min Schröter under the supervision of Dr. Altay Coskun. [T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol. I (509 B.C.-100 B.C.). Published for the American Philological Association by the Press of Case Western Reserve University. leveland, Ohio 1951, repr. 1968. Fasti (p. 1-578): not yet digitalised. Additions and Corrections - Volume I (p. 579-585) Further Additions and Corrections (p. 585-588)] T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol. II (99 B.C.-31 B.C.). Published by the American Philological Association. New York 1952. Fasti (p. 1-428): to be found on file MRR2. Appendix I – Monetales (p. 429-461) Appendix II – Magistrates of Uncertain Date (p. 462-486) Appendix III – Supplementary List of Senators (p. 487-498) Index of Careers (p. 524-636): in full to be found on file MRR2Ind and incorporated into RADAR_01 (printed in black) Note on Chronology (p. 637-639) Additions and Corrections – Volume I (p. 640-646) Additions and Corrections – Volume II (p. 646-647) [T. Robert S. Broughton: Supplement to the Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Published by the American Philological Association. New York 1960. Additions and Corrections (p. 1-71) Errata – Volume I (p. 72) Errata – Volume II (p. 72-74) Concordance (p. 82-89)] T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol. III: Supplement. Scholars Press. Atlanta, Georgia 1986. Additions and Corrections (p. 1-225): to be found on file MRR3 and incorporated into RADAR_01 (printed in italics) Errata – Volume I (p. 226-235) Concordance (p. 284-294) 99 B.C. A.U.C. 655 Consuls M. Antonius M. f. M. n. (28) Pr. 102 A. Postumius - f. - n. Albinus Pat. (*36) Pr. by 102 CIL 1².2.680; Cic. P. Red. ad Quir. 11; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 55f., 128, 478f.; Plin. NH 8.19; Gell. 4.6.1-2; Obseq. 46; Chr. 354 (Antonino et Albino); Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Antonius, I. de Delos 4.1.1700; App. BC 1.32; Apul. Apol. 17; and on Postumius, Grueber, CRRBM 1.509. Antonius opposed the agrarian law of Titius (Cic. De Or. 2.48, cf. 2.265; 3.10; see Tribunes of the Plebs). Praetors ? C. Cassius Longinius1 (57) Cos. 96 ? C. Coelius Caldus2 (12) Cos. 94 ? Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus3 (21) Cos. 96 1 The latest possible year for his praetorship under the Leges Annales. 2 Since the governors of Spain in 94 and 93, during and after the consulship of Caelius, are known, his term must precede that of Didius, who was assigned to Spain while Consul in 98. The emblem of the boar of Clunia on the coins which commemorate him suggest that his province was Nearer Spain (Graeber, CRRBM 1.475; cf. Wilsdorf, Leipzig. Stud. 1.110; Cesano, Stud. Num. 1.224f.). This is therefore the latest possible date for his praetorship, but he may have been a Praetor in 100 and a Promagistrate in 99. 3 The latest possible year for his praetorship under the Leges Annales. MRR2 Aediles, Curule C. Claudius Pulcher4 Pat. (302) Cos. 92, Pr. 95 Inscr. Ital. 13.3, no. 70 b-CIL 12. 1, p. 200. Gave especially splendid games, and was the first to use elephants in venationes (Cic. Verr. 2.4.6 and 133; Har. Resp. 26; Off. 2.57; Val. Max. 2.4.6; Plin. NH 8.19, with the names of the Consuls; 35.23; cf. 21.6, where the praenomen is P.; Gran. Lic. 38 B). L. Valerius Flaccus Pat. (*57) Cos. Suff. 86 Cic. Flacc. 77; cf. Schol. Bob. 95 and 105 Stangl. Tribunes of the Plebs L. Appuleius Saturninus (29) L. Equitius (3) The two Tribunes were killed on their first day of office, December 10, 100 B.C. (App. BC 1.32-33; cf. Cic. Rab. Perd. 20; Val. Max. 3.2.18; Dio 37.26; and on Saturninus, Inscr. Ital. 13.3.16 and 83-CIL 12.1, p. 195; see 102, Censors; and 100, Consuls, and Tribunes of the Plebs). [1] P. Furius (22) Vetoed, with Marius' support, a bill to recall Metellus Numidicus (App. BC 1.33; Oros. 5.17.11; cf. Dio 28, fr. 95.1-3; Plut. Mar. 31.1). Proposed the confiscation of the properties of Saturninus and his associates (Oros. 5.17.10). See 98, Tribunes of the Plebs, on Decianus. Q. Pompeius Rufus5 (*4) Cos. 88, Pr. 91 M. Porcius Cato6 (*17) The bill of these two Tribunes to recall Metellus Numidicus from exile was opposed by Marius (still Consul, December, 100), and vetoed by Furius (App. BC 1.33; Oros. 5.17.11; cf. Plut. -Mar. 31.1; Gell. 13.20.14; Dio 28, fr. 95.1-3). Sex. Titius7 (23) A sympathizer of Saturninus and author of an agrarian bill which was impeded by bad omens and vetoed by other Tribunes (Cic. Leg. 2.14 and 3 1; Rab. Perd. 24; Val. Max. 8.1, damn. 3; Obseq. 46, Sextius; cf. Cic. De Or. 2.48 and 265), and perhaps also author of a law regulating the assignment of quaestorian provinces (Cic. Mur. 18, referring to 74 B.C.; 'Vat. 12; Schol. Bob. 145 Stangl). Rotondi (333) mentions him also as a possible author of a Lex de Tutela (but see Niccolini, FTP 443f.). Quaestors Ap. Claudius Pulcher8 Pat. (296) Cos. 79, Pr. 89 T. Mallius (10) Grueber, CRRBM 1.199; cf. Mommsen, RMW 561, no. 177. C. Saufeius9 (3) 4 He was prosecuted by Appuleius Decianus after his aedileship, which should therefore be dated in 99. 5 In our sources only the name Pompeius is given, but identification with the Consul of 88 is very probable, since the interval between tribunate and consulship and the political sympathies of the Tribune both agree with it. 6 The father of Cato of Utica died before 91 (Plut. Cat. Min. 1.1). He had held the tribunate and was a candidate for the praetorship at the time of his death (Gell. 13.20.14). This tribunate is attributed in Drumann-Groebe (5.214) to L. Porcius Cato, Cos. 89, whose tenure of the office is not independently attested, but by Niccolini (FTP 205) to Cato's father. On the order of the husbands of Livia, Cato's mother, see Münzer, APF 295-297. 7 When accused of maiestas, probably in 98, Titius was convicted, mainly because he kept an image of Saturninus in his house (Cic. De Or. 2.48 and 265; Rab. .Perd. 24; Val. Max. 8.1, damn. 3; cf. Cic. Brut. 225; De Or. 2.253). 8 The coins in question contain the forms Ap. Cl., T. Mal., and Q. Urb. The variations in the order of the first two indicate that the third is rightly interpreted by Mommsen and Grueber to mean Q(uaestores) Urb(ani), not Q. Turb(inius). Claudius should most probably be identified with the Praetor of 89 (who, though Grueber disagrees, may also be the legionary commander of the name in 87 and the Interrex of 78; see these years), and therefore Mommsen's tentative suggestion of 99, ten years earlier, for his quaestorship a reasonably approximate date. Mallius is not otherwise known. Cichorius, quoting ILS 8888, is inclined to read Mal(oleius) and to identify this Quaestor with one of the officers of Pompeius Strabo (RS 146), but the occurrence of the name Mallius in Roman public office in 143 and 105 favors its retention here. 9 He entered office on December 5, 100 B. C. (Mommsen, Str. 1.606). See App. BC 1.32-33. MRR2 In office on December 10, 100, during the disorders caused by Saturninus and Glaucia, he seized the Capitol, was the last of his group to surrender, and was killed in the Curia (App. BC 1.32; cf. Cic. Rab. Perd. 20; Oros. 5.17.8-9). Promagistrates M'. Aquillius10 (11) Cos. 101 Proconsul in Sicily (Liv. Per. 69). Completed the pacification of Sicily and returned to celebrate an ovatio (Posidonius in FGrH 2A.87, 36, p. 245; Cic. De Or. 2.195; Diod. 36.10.1; Val. Max. 9.13.1; Jerome Chr. ad ann. 96, p. 149 Helm; cf. Cic. Verr. 2.5.5; Liv. Per. 69; Grueber, CRRBM 1.416; Cesano, Stud. Num. 1.220; Degrassi 562). He was later, perhaps in 98, accused of peculation but won acquittal through the appeals of Marius and the advocacy of M. Antonius (Cic. De Or. 2.194-196; Flacc. 98; Verr. 2.5.3; Brut. 222; Liv. Per. 70; Quintil. inst. Or. 2.15.7). [2x] L. Cornelius Dolabella Pat. (138) Pr. 100? Proconsul in Farther Spain (Act. Tr. for 98, Degrassi 84f., 562). See 100, Praetors, and 98, Promagistrates. T. Diditus11 (5) Cos. 98, Pr. 101? Cic. Pis. 61; cf. SEG 3.378. See 101, Praetors, and 100, Promagistrates. Pontifices C. Iulius L. f. (Caesar Strabo)12 Pat. (135) He announced as Pontifex the motion of the spears of Mars in the sacrarium of the Regia (Gell. 4.6.2; cf. Elogium, Inscr. Ital. 13.3, no. 6-CIL 12.1, p. 198). [3] 10 Obsequens (45) places Aquillius' victory in Sicily in 100, but Livy (Per. 69) puts the end of the war after the return of Metellus Numidicus from exile in 98 (see 98, Tribunes of the Plebs). As he celebrated his ovatio before January 26, 98, when the list of triumphs as preserved in Act. Tr. begins again (Degrassi 85 and 562), it is best dated in 99. 11 Degrassi (562) and Passerini (Athenaeum 12 [1934] 134ff.) are inclined to date his departure from Macedonia and his return to celebrate his triumph in 100 B.
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