Some Republican Senators and their Tribes

T.P. Wiseman

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Some Republican Senators and their Tribes

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The study of the republican Roman Senate was revolutionized by Professor Broughton's Magistrates, and to a lesser extent more recently by Professor Lily Ross Taylor's Voting Districts of the Roman Republic. Naturally, neither of these two great works rounded up all the available evidence without exception, and a considerable amount of mopping-up has been carried out. More remains to be done, however, and this article aims at providing some further information on republican senators, their tribes, and their origins, as an addendum to (in the first section) M.R.R. and its Supplement, and (in the second) the prosopogra- phical chapter of Professor Taylor's book.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Classical Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , May 1964 , pp. 122 - 133

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^{page 122 note 1} Broughton, T. R. S., The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951-1952, Supplement 1960);Google ScholarTaylor, Lily Ross, The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic (1960), ch. 13 (pp. 184–269)Google Scholar. Abbreviated as M.R.R. and L.R.T. respectively. Numbers in brackets refer to articles in Pauly-Wissowa (R.-E.).

Much new or unnoticed information on the tribes has been published recently: see Badian, E., Historia xii (1963), 130–43,Google Scholar and Professor Syme's ‘Senators, Tribes and Towns’, ibid, xiii (1964), 105 ff. I am grateful to Professor Syme for allowing me to see the proofs of his paper before its publication, and to Mr. M. W. Frederiksen, who read and commented on an earlier version of this article.

^{page 122 note 2} Cf. M.R.R. ii. 468–9, 482–3.Google Scholar

^{page 123 note 1} S.I.G. ³ 747 for Sacerdos' affiliation.Google Scholar

^{page 124 note 1} de Laet, S. J., De Samenstelling van den Romeinschen Senaat (1941), no. 11.Google Scholar

^{page 124 note 2} C.I.L. i². 688,Google ScholarI.L.S. 6303, 7999.Google Scholar

^{page 124 note 3} Cf. M.R.R. ii. 448.Google Scholar

^{page 125 note 1} Jardé, A., Mélanges Cagnat (1912), pp. 52–58;Google ScholarCichorius, C., Rh. Mus. lxxvi (1927), pp. 327–9.Google Scholar

^{page 125 note 2} Mommsen, , E.E. iv. 193,Google ScholarSyme, , R.R. p. 279,Google Scholar n. 3. Perhaps the Rufi began using Cn. instead of A. as a result of the fame of Magnus? Cf. Sen. de Ben. 4. 30. 2: this man owed his consulship to Magnus' reputation.

^{page 125 note 3} S.I.G. ³747,Google ScholarI.L.S. 6629 with Cichorius' remarks (Röm. Stud., pp. 185–9Google Scholar), doubted needlessly, I think, by Professor Taylor (L.R.T. 245Google Scholar). The quaestor Q. Pompeius Rufus (42) in the Arnensis was probably the adopted son of the cos. of 88, whose natural son was killed in the riots of that year, and so may have kept the tribe of his old family. See Mommsen, , Hermes xxi (1885), 284Google Scholar, and now Badian, , Historia xii (1963), 138–9.Google Scholar

^{page 125 note 4} Mr. M. H. Crawford tells me that Sydenham's date probably is wildly wrong, thanks to his late dating of the first denarii (Buttrey, T. V., ‘The Morgantina Excavations and the Date of the Roman Denarius’, Acts of the International Numismatic Congress [Rome 1961]).Google Scholar In this case the moneyer may well have been Terence's master. He gave a spectacular gladiatorial show to celebrate his adoption by his grandfather (Pliny, N.H. 35. 52Google Scholar); Toynbee, J., P.B.A. xxxix (1953), 68, n. 2, for the context—early second cen- tury B.C.Google Scholar

^{page 126 note 1} Used by Tacitus when writing of the Julio-Claudians for events as far separated as the Trojan war and the death of Augustus' grandsons (Ann. 3. 6, 15. 39).

^{page 126 note 2} Ann. 1. 74, 3. 48, 6. 29, Hist. 1. 88, 2. 72.

^{page 126 note 3} Marsus: probably son of C. Vibius Postumus of Larinum, suff. A.D. 5. Agrippa: grandson of Asinius Pollio.

^{page 126 note 4} R.-E. iii. 1267;Google ScholarP.B.S.R. xiv (1938), 6 n. 19.Google Scholar

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^{page 127 note 1} The name occurs also at Aesernia, Puteoli, Misenum, and Gemona in Venetia (C.I.L. ix. 2753, x. 2758, 3610, v. 1811), but none of these is early and on only one of them is a praenomen recorded; a C. Mussidius who served in the fleet at Misenum.Google Scholar

^{page 127 note 2} Vetter, E., Handbuch der Italischen Dialekte (1953), no. 204;Google ScholarSchulten, A., Klio iii (1903), 260;Google ScholarConway, R. S., The Italic Dialects (1897), no. 206.Google Scholar

^{page 127 note 3} Cf. L.R.T. 255–6 on L. Staius Murcus, who appears embarrassingly at Sulmo. Varius must have been closely followed by other Paelignian senators: L. Mussidius, no doubt son of the moneyer, and Sex. Vibidius Virro (P.I.R. M 550, Syme, , J.R.S. xxxix [1949], 17).Google Scholar

^{page 127 note 4} C.I.L. iv. 1177, 1179–80, 3785,Google Scholar 4696, x. 818, 8071. 48. Very rare elsewhere in Italy except Cisalpine Gaul: ix. 4928 in the Sabini, , i². 2637–40 at Perusia.Google Scholar

^{page 127 note 5} Livy 23. 8. 1; C.I.L. x. 2776–9, iv. 5695, I.L.S. 6389.Google Scholar

^{page 128 note 1} Syme, , Historia v (1956), 205—the son's wife has an Umbrian name. The only other Sex. Lartidii known outside Rome are one in Africa and a soldier of the XVIth legion who died in Mainz between A.D. 9 and 43, Sex. Lartidius Sex. f. Vel. of Pistoriae (I.L.S. 2265;Google ScholarR.-E. xii. 1762,Google ScholarSyme, , J.R.S. xxiv [1933] 28 ff. for the dates).Google Scholar M. Lartidii occur at Pisaurum, Ariminum, and Fanum Fortunae on the Umbrian coast, at Ferrara, and in Macedonia (C.I.L. xi. 6234, 6689.Google Scholar 135–6,6699. 117, v. 2441, A.E. [1940], 175).Google Scholar

^{page 128 note 2} Historia xii (1963), 131, 133:Google Scholar cf. P.I.R. ² A 763,Google Scholar Mattingly/Sydenham, R.I.C. i. 153, 178,Google ScholarA.E. (1959), 272.Google Scholar

^{page 128 note 3} Calvisius, : I.L.S. 925,Google ScholarE.E. viii. 145,Google ScholarArcheologia Classica (1949-1950), 51,Google ScholarSyme, , Historia xiii (1964), 113.Google Scholar Minatius (proq. 46, R.-E. no. 3): I.L.S. 5321. Pontius, , Vibius, : C.I.L. v. 4348,Google ScholarSyme, , R.R. 363 n. 2,Google ScholarP.I.R. P 605, V 408. Note also Octavian's abandoned cognomen Thurinus (Suet. D.A. 7.1).Google Scholar

^{page 128 note 4} C.I.L. x. 8050,Google Scholar viii. 8115. Other Ovinii occur in Italy at Venafrum (an Augustan Ilvir L. Ovinius L.f. M.n. Ter.), Teanum Sidicinum, Larinum, Pisae, Ostia, and Tibur (C.I.L. x. 4785, 4792, ix. 6248, xi. 1482, 7211, xiv. 1441, 3614).Google Scholar

^{page 129 note 1} C.I.L. vi. 200. 3. 75, 24618, x. 4048; ix. 6250,Google ScholarHatzfeld, , B.C.H. xxxvi (1912), 65–66, 130 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 129 note 2} Cichorius, , Unt. zu Luc. p. 196, from the Fasti Triumphales.Google Scholar

^{page 129 note 3} Münzer, R.-E. for his ‘emergency command’, comparingGoogle Scholar Dio 51. 5. 6, 9. 2 on Cornelius Gallus. He may be identified with (a) C. Plautius C.f. Rufus pr. bis, also of Auximum, (b) the moneyer C. Plotius Rufus, and (c) the Plautius Rufus who conspired against Augustus (C.I.L. ix. 6384, de Laet no. 292,Google Scholar Suet. D.A. 19, Syme, , R.R. 478 n. 4).Google Scholar

^{page 129 note 4} L.R.T. 187, 194, 204, 207, 208, 225, 232, 236, 237, 243, 261, 288Google Scholar n. 24. Cf. also Badian, , Historia xii (1963), 136.Google Scholar

^{page 129 note 5} R.-E. nos. 11, 13, 23.Google Scholar

^{page 129 note 6} See Wiseman, , Mnemosyne xvi (1963), 283 ff., for a detailed argument.Google Scholar

^{page 130 note 1} C.I.L. vi. 25808, 25810 (a freedwoman and a daughter?), ix. 3496, 3639. Other Salvidieni outside Rome: v. 4468, x. 2928, xiv. 3632, viii. 7702. Salvideni: x. 2408. Salvidenii: viii. 2097, 7701–4, 9820.Google Scholar Cf. P.I.R. S 85–91.Google Scholar

^{page 130 note 2} Both versions of the name occur at Puteoli (C.I.L. x. 2408, 2928Google Scholar); note also M. Salvideni Asprenas and Proculus under Vespasian, and a M. Salvidienus in the third century A.D. (P.I.R. S 85–86, 89).Google Scholar

^{page 130 note 3} Sil. It. 8. 515 f., Martial 13. 31, Pliny N.H. 11. 241.

^{page 130 note 4} C.I.L. v. 3036–7,Google Scholar cf. 2885, 2948; 8112. 76, xi. 6695. 87–88. Elsewhere only on a vase at Tolosa (xii. 586. 819). The nomen also turns up at Rome and Pompeii, in Cyzicus, Spain, and Africa (vi. 19521, iv. 60. 6, iii. 373. ii. 6249. 5, viii. 22654. 3).

^{page 130 note 5} Africani, suff. A.D. 69, cos. 112; Laterani, coss. 154, 197.

^{page 130 note 6} N.S. (1913), p. 153, (1917), p. 186.Google Scholar

^{page 131 note 1} Groag, , R.-E. iiA. 2039,Google ScholarDessau, , P.I.R. S 464,Google ScholarMeiggs, , Roman Ostia, p. 193.Google Scholar

^{page 131 note 2} C.I.L. x. 879, 8058. 83, vi. 26712. Note also an early Spurius at Nola—x. 1329.Google Scholar

^{page 131 note 3} Livy 22. 42–43, per. 11, Front. Strat. 4. 7. 36, V.M. 1. 8. 6, 7. 37, vir. ill. 43. 5.

^{page 131 note 4} Cic. Scaur. 23, where one manuscript has the gloss ‘(Titi) Q,. Muttonis’; pro Fundanio ap. Priscian 7. 58 (GL. ii. 335 K.).Google Scholar

^{page 131 note 5} Wiseman, , Mnemosyne xvi (1963), 283 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 131 note 6} L.R.T. 187, 207, 247; cf. also 229–31 on the patrician Manlii.Google Scholar

^{page 131 note 7} Ibid. 21, n. 18, 204–5. I.L.S. 2703, 2815, C.I.L. vi. 5556, 8507, etc.Google Scholar

^{page 132 note 1} Cf. also Q,. Annius M.f. Qui. Proculus, vi. 5214, 5296—P.I.R. ² A 658–9, 673 for second-century A.D. Annii in the Quirina. See p. 126 above on Volusius.

^{page 132 note 2} Degrassi, , J.I. xiii. 1 pp. 21, 59 (37 B.C.); above, p. 127 n. 3 on Paelignian senators.Google Scholar

^{page 132 note 3} C.I.L. ix. 3040, 3407. See pp. 130–1 and above on Salvidienus and Taurus.Google Scholar

^{page 132 note 4} Note, for instance, a L. Vipsanius Lucanus in Verona and a M. Vipsanius Amerimnus at Potentia in Lucania; a Praetorian guardsman M. Vipsanius M.f. Gal. and a M. Vipsanius Polybius at Luna in the Galeria (C.I.L. v. 3839, x. 8059. 444; vi. 2595, xi. 1355a. 2. 4).Google Scholar

^{page 132 note 5} Baehrens, P.L.M. iv. 64:Google Scholar one manuscript couples it with the previous poem, the other with the answering couplet that follows. Also ascribed to Varro in manuscript m of the Comm. Cruq.: Endt, J., Studien zum Commentarius Cruquensis (Teubner 1906), p. 48.Google Scholar

^{page 132 note 6} e.g. ad Sat. 1. 5. 37 on the Aelii Lamiae's origin from Formiae; cf. Syme, , Hist. xiii (1964), 110.Google Scholar

^{page 133 note 1} Cf. C.I.L. vi. 9937–42. Note that there is some authority for the reading tonsor instead of sutor at Sat. 1.3. 130 on ‘Alfenus vafer’; sec Bentley ad loc.Google Scholar

^{page 133 note 2} Wiseman, , Latomus xxii (1963), 87–90,Google Scholar This identification would imply a rabid anti-Pompeian married to the daughter of an enthusiastic supporter of Pompey; but M. Claudius Marcellus (cos. 51) married a Calvisia Sabina (I.G. 11². 4111).Google Scholar

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