Aulus Gabinius Secundus

Aulus Gabinius Secundus (sometimes also Publius Gabinius Secundus in the tradition ) was a Roman politician and general of the 1st century AD.

Life

After he had been a suffect consul in 35 , Gabinius became a commander ( legatus Augusti pro praetore) of the Lower Germanic army under Caligula . At the beginning of the rule of Claudius in 41 he led a successful campaign against the Germanic tribe of the Chauken , who settled on the North Sea coast between the Elbe and Ems and who had made themselves unpopular with the Romans due to their raids and their ties to the neighboring Frisians . The Chauken had also fought in the Varus Battle in 9 on the side of the Cheruscan prince Arminius .

The Romans had not forgotten this defeat and saw it as a great success when Gabinius Secundus recaptured the last of the three legionary eagles lost in the Varus Battle . For this success and a simultaneous one of Sulpicius Galba against the Chatti Claudius took on the title imperator . Gabinius received the right to use the name Chaucius as an award .

However, the Chauken had not succeeded in total submission. As early as 47 they resumed their raids and plundered the Gallic coast with their light pirate ships.

The presumed son of the suffect consul 35 was the suffect consul of the same name of the year 43.

literature

Werner Eck : Gabinius [II 3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 728.
Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR²) G 9 (with the first name Publius ; not viewed).
Prosopographia Imperii Romani , Pars 7, Fasc. 2, 2006, p. 114 ( online at Google books ).

References and comments

↑ On the name question cf. G. Camodeca, review by Werner Eck : The governors of the Germanic provinces from 1. – 3. Century . In: Athenaeum 65, 1987, pp. 586-587 (not viewed) and Prosopographia Imperii Romani 7, 2, p. 114.
^ Cassius Dio 60, 8, 7 ( English translation ).
^ Suetonius , Claudius 24, 3 ( English translation ).
↑ Prosopographia Imperii Romani 7, 2, p. 114; Werner Eck: Gabinius [II 4]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 728.

personal data
SURNAME	Gabinius Secundus, Aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Secundus, Aulus Gabinius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman politician and general
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH	1st century

[1] On the name question cf. G. Camodeca, review by Werner Eck : The governors of the Germanic provinces from 1. – 3. Century . In: Athenaeum 65, 1987, pp. 586-587 (not viewed) and Prosopographia Imperii Romani 7, 2, p. 114.

[2] Cassius Dio 60, 8, 7 ( English translation ).

[3] Suetonius , Claudius 24, 3 ( English translation ).

[4] Prosopographia Imperii Romani 7, 2, p. 114; Werner Eck: Gabinius [II 4]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 728.