Aulus Atilius Serranus

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Aulus Atilius Serranus was a politician of the Roman Republic who came from the plebeian aristocratic family of the Atilians . 170 BC He officiated as consul .

Life

According to the testimony of the Fasti Capitolini , the father and grandfather of Aulus Atilius Serranus carried out the prenomen Gaius . The first known office of his cursus honorum is the curular aedility , which he gave in 194 BC. BC together with Lucius Scribonius Libo . The aediles gave the senators their own seats at the Ludi Romani, separate from the rest of the audience.

192 BC Atilius held the praetur and should originally receive Hispania ulterior as a province, but later Macedonia and the command of the local fleet were assigned to him by a senate resolution confirmed by the plebs. He had to equip a squadron and got 3,000 soldiers available to take military action against the Spartan King Nabis . As a result, he sailed with his fleet to Greece, but then reached the Senate because of the impending war with the Seleucid king Antiochus III. the sending of a praetor is no longer sufficient. After Nabis was murdered, Atilius helped the Achaean general Philopoimen to organize the situation in Sparta . In the following year 191 BC He remained commander in chief of the Roman fleet in Greek waters until Gaius Livius Salinator came to replace him . Before that, since Antiochus III. war had already been declared, a large supply fleet destined for them from the island of Andros . Salinator then took over the supreme command of the Roman ships in the port of Piraeus , while Atilius went back to his homeland.

Atilius served as praetor again in 173 BC. BC and this time had to provide the area of ​​responsibility of the city praetor ( praetor urbanus ). For Rome he had to renew the friendship treaty with Antiochus IV that had been concluded with his father.

In the autumn of 172 BC Atilius belonged to a five-person delegation traveling to Greece, whose task it was to scrutinize the situation in Hellas before the impending war with the Macedonian king Perseus and to work there in the interests of the Roman Empire. The ambassadors split up to travel to Greece on different routes, with Atilius, together with Quintus Marcius Philippus, first to Epirus , then to Aetolia and Thessaly . Then the Peloponnese was on her visit program. Atilius and Marcius also knew how to start new negotiations with Perseus, which they did not lead seriously, but only with the aim of giving the Romans time for the necessary armaments. When they got back to Italy, they boasted of this fraudulent delaying tactic, but received criticism from older senators. 171 BC Atilius traveled again to Greece as a legate in order to occupy Larisa with his soldiers .

Serranus reached the climax of his political career in 170 BC. When he rose to consul with Aulus Hostilius Mancinus and received Italy as a province. His later fate is unknown.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 34, 54, 3; Valerius Maximus , Facta et dicta memorabilia 2, 4, 3; Asconius , Commentary on Cicero , Pro Cornelio de maiestate , p. 61 (after Valerius Antias ).
  2. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 35, 10, 11 and 35, 20, 9.
  3. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 35, 20, 11ff .; 35, 21, 1; 35, 22, 2.
  4. ↑ Livius, Ab urbe condita 35, 23, 4ff.
  5. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 35, 37, 3.
  6. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 36, 2, 14; 36, 11, 9; 36, 20, 7f .; 36, 42, 7; Appian , Syriaka 22.
  7. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 41, 28, 5; 42, 6, 10.
  8. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 42, 37f.
  9. ↑ Polybius , Histories 27, 2, 11.
  10. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 42, 38-43 and 42, 47.
  11. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 42, 47, 10f.
  12. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 170 BC Chr .; among others
personal data
SURNAME Atilius Serranus, Aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Serranus, Aulus Atilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 170 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.