Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva (Consul 325 BC)

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Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva (* 4th century BC) was a politician of the early Roman Republic and 325 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva came from the Roman plebeian family of Junier . His second cognomen Scaeva is only handed down in one place in the history of the Roman annalist Titus Livius , but his prenomen Decimus has been dropped in the same place and is not mentioned in Livius' work, but only in the Greek-Sicilian historian Diodorus and in Cassiodor's chronicle.

Brutus is first mentioned in 339 BC. Mentioned when he held the post of Magister equitum of the dictator Quintus Publilius Philo . Like Brutus, Publilius also belonged to the plebeians, of whom very few representatives, such as Gaius Marcius Rutilus, had held the dictatorship or the office of equestrian leader. According to the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer , Brutus was one of the most important plebeians of his time.

325 BC Then Brutus was the first (plebeian) Junier to take up the highest office of state, with Lucius Furius Camillus as his colleague. In the previous year Rome's second war against the Samnites had broken out, with whom the mountain people of the Vestines now also made common cause. Camillus was supposed to fight the Samnites, but - allegedly because of a serious illness - transferred command to Lucius Papirius Cursor, who had been appointed dictator . Brutus fell to the war against the Vestines. Livy depicts the campaign of Brutus, who conquered some otherwise unknown and therefore probably insignificant places ( Cutina , Cingilia ) of the Vestines, apparently with exaggerated success.

313 BC BC Brutus probably belonged to the triumvirs who founded a Latin colony in Saticula in Samnium . His son of the same name was born in 292 BC. BC together with Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges consul.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Livy 8:29 , 2.
  2. ^ Diodorus 18, 2, 1.
  3. ^ Livy 8, 12, 13.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Münzer: Junius 60). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Col. 1026.
  5. ↑ Livy 8:29 , 2; Diodorus 18, 2, 1; among others
  6. ↑ Livy 8:29, 3-14; Friedrich Münzer: Junius 60). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Sp. 1027.
  7. ↑ Sextus Pompeius Festus , De verborum significatione , p. 458, 26ff. ed. Lindsay; see. Velleius Paterculus 1, 14, 4.
personal data
SURNAME Junius Brutus Scaeva, Decimus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brutus Scaeva, Decimus Junius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 325 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.