Considius

Considius (female form Considia ) was the gentile name of a plebeian family of the Roman Empire , the gens Considia . Apart from a probably unhistorical tribune of the 5th century BC. The family has only been around since the 1st century BC. Chr. Attested. Its representatives achieved the praetur as the highest office of the cursus honorum .

Significant members of the family were:

Republican time

• Quintus Considius (tribune of the people) , said to be 476 BC. Chr. Tribune of the people, historicity doubtful
• Considius (tenant) , state tenant , defended in a trial by the speaker Lucius Licinius Crassus
• Lucius Considius , was 83 BC. BC with Sextus Saltius Duumvir of a Colonia in Capua
• Quintus Considius (judge) , was 74 BC. Judge in the trial of the Roman knight Statius Albius Oppianicus, 59 BC. BC critic Gaius Iulius Caesar
• Publius Considius , served as a soldier under Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, Marcus Licinius Crassus and finally under Gaius Iulius Caesar during his Gallic War
• Gaius Considius Longus († 46 BC), before 54 BC. BC Praetor, Pompeian, was murdered on the run after Caesar's victory at Thapsus
• Marcus Considius Nonianus , praetor at the end of the 1950s BC In the Roman Civil War Pompeians
• Gaius Considius Paetus , son of Gaius Considius Longus, 46 BC. Pardoned by Caesar
• Quintus Considius Gallus , 44 BC. One of the heirs of Quintus Turius

Imperial times

• Considius Aequus , Roman knight, was punished by the Senate in AD 21 on false charges
• Considius (Prosecutor) , indicted Publius Pomponius Secundus in 31 AD for invasion of majesty
• Considius Proculus , was executed for lese majesty in 33 AD
• Considia Sancia , sister of Considius Proculus, exiled in 33 AD

literature

• Friedrich Münzer et al: Considius 1) -17). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Col. 912-915.