Gaius Furnius (consul 17 BC)

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Gaius Furnius († after 17 BC) came from the Roman family of the veneer and was 17 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Gaius Furnius was the son of the tribune of the same name from 50 BC. Chr. He sat down at Octavian after his victory over Mark Antony (30 v. Chr.) Successful for the pardon of his father, who had been a partisan of Antony and had therefore been on the losing side.

When Augustus, as Octavian called himself as the sole ruler, 26 BC. Chr. Personally took over the leadership of the Cantabrian War , which the Romans waged against the last still independent Spanish tribes, the Cantabrians and Asturians , Furnius took part in it as a legate of the emperor. 25 BC The Cantabrians entrenched themselves on the Mons Medullius , whose siege by the Romans Furnius participated in a leading position. After the Cantabrians recognized the impossibility of escape, many of them preferred to stab or poison themselves rather than fall into Roman captivity.

But even after Augustus returned to Italy (late 25 BC), the war in Spain was far from over. 22 BC Furnius acted as governor of the province of Hispania citerior and was then confronted with an uprising of the Cantabrians, which broke out simultaneously with a rebellion of the Asturians against Publius Carisius , the legatus Augusti pro praetore Lusitania . Furnius defeated the Cantabrians, who in turn preferred death by poison or burning in their self-ignited entrenchments to captivity. After that, Furnius pulled Carisius to the aid and supported him in suppressing the uprising of the Asturians who had to surrender.

According to the fasting information, Furnius reached 17 BC. With the clothing of the consulate the climax of his career. He was also active as a speaker and writer and died before his father.

The classical philologist Alfred Kappelmacher considers a candidus Furnius, referred to as a friend by the Roman poet Horace, to be the Furnius discussed here rather than his father.

literature

Remarks

  1. Seneca , de beneficiis 2, 25.
  2. Florus 2, 33, 50f .; Orosius 6, 21, 6f.
  3. ^ Cassius Dio 54, 5, 1-3.
  4. Hieronymus , Chronicle ad annum 17 v. Chr.
  5. Horace, Satires 1:10 , 86; on this Alfred Kappelmacher: Furnius 4). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 377.