Decimus Junius Brutus (Consul 77 BC)

Decimus Junius Brutus (* 120 BC or a little earlier; † after 63 BC) was a Roman politician of the late republic .

As a very young man, Brutus was born in 100 BC. Active against Lucius Appuleius Saturninus . The only certain date of his senatorial career is the consulate in 77 BC. The long distance of more than 60 years to the consulate of his father Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (consul 138 BC) could indicate that his career was due to the previous civil wars in the 80s BC. Was delayed, so it was perhaps significantly older than the legal minimum age of 43 years. In 63 BC He was still alive during the Catilinarian conspiracy when his wife Sempronia (perhaps a daughter of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus ) supported the conspirators in Brutus' absence.

Cicero testifies that Brutus often appeared as a court speaker and was educated in Greek and Latin. His son Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus belonged to 44 BC. To the conspirators against Gaius Iulius Caesar .

literature

Hans Georg Gundel : Brutus 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 955.
Friedrich Münzer : Junius 46 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Col. 968.

Remarks

^ Graham V. Sumner: The orators in Cicero's Brutus. Prosopography and chronology (= Phoenix. Supplementary Volume. 11). University of Toronto Press, Toronto et al. 1973, ISBN 0-8020-5281-9 , pp. 103-104, quoted from T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 3: Supplement (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 3). Scholars Press, Atlanta GA 1986, ISBN 0-89130-811-3 , p. 111.
^ Sallust , Coniuratio Catilinae 40.
↑ Cicero, Brutus 175: multum etiam in causis versabatur isdem fere temporibus D. Brutus, is qui consul cum Mamerco fuit, homo et Graecis doctus litteris et Latinis .

personal data
SURNAME	Junius Brutus, Decimus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brutus, Decimus Junius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman politician, consul 77 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH	before 120 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 63 BC Chr.

[1] Graham V. Sumner: The orators in Cicero's Brutus. Prosopography and chronology (= Phoenix. Supplementary Volume. 11). University of Toronto Press, Toronto et al. 1973, ISBN 0-8020-5281-9 , pp. 103-104, quoted from T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 3: Supplement (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 3). Scholars Press, Atlanta GA 1986, ISBN 0-89130-811-3 , p. 111.

[2] Sallust , Coniuratio Catilinae 40.

[3] Cicero, Brutus 175: multum etiam in causis versabatur isdem fere temporibus D. Brutus, is qui consul cum Mamerco fuit, homo et Graecis doctus litteris et Latinis .