Gaius Marcius Censorinus (consul 8 BC)

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Gaius Marcius Censorinus was a Roman senator who lived around 50 BC. Was born and died around the year 3 AD. He came from Aquinum and belonged to the ancient Roman family of Marcier .

Gaius Marcius Censorinus was a son of Lucius Marcius Censorinus , 39 BC. Had exercised the consulate . The foundation stone for his career was probably already laid in adolescence when he was accepted into the college of augurs . He began his statesmanship career ( cursus honorum ) around 20 BC. With the admission into the Vigintisexviri , where he entered the college of the Tresviri monetales. Here he was responsible for the coinage in Rome.

In the years 16 to 13 BC He was entrusted as a legate with the governorship in Bithynia . In the year 8 BC Censorinus became a full consul. During his tenure, he and his colleague Gaius Asinius Gallus carried out regulation of the Tiber. In addition, Censorinus organized the festival ( Ludi votivi ) in honor of Augustus , which were held on the occasion of the return of the Princeps from Gaul . Under the consulate of Censorinus and his colleague, the sixth month ( sextilis ) was renamed Augustus by means of a senate resolution ( senatus consultum ) in the Roman calendar .

In the years 2 to 3 AD Gaius Marcius Censorinus was proconsul and governor in the province of Asia , where he had a very high reputation and where public games were held in Mylasa in his honor after his death . Censorinus, whom the provincials referred to as “savior and benefactor” ( Greek  σωτήρ καὶ εὐεργέτης sotér kai euergétes ), was the last Roman who was so honored without having belonged to the imperial family ( domus Augusta ).

Gaius Marcius Censorinus, who is characterized as humanitarian, died during his tenure in the province. During his lifetime he had been on friendly terms with the Roman poet Horace . Both were connected through their passion for collecting Greek bronze sculptures. Horace had dedicated an ode to his friend in this regard .

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  1. ↑ CIL 10,5396
  2. ↑ CIL 10,5396
  3. ↑ RIC I (2) Augustus 325–326 (online)
  4. ^ Christian Marek : Pontus et Bithynia. The Roman provinces in northern Asia Minor . von Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-2925-3 , p. 48.
  5. ↑ CIL 6,458 ; CIL 11,844
  6. ↑ CIL 6, 1235
  7. ↑ Velleius , Historia Romana , 2,97,1 (online)
  8. ↑ a b SEG 2,549 (online)
  9. ↑ Jochen Bleicken : Augustus: A biography. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verl., Reinbek bei Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-62650-0 , p. 438
  10. ↑ Ralf von den Hoff , Wilfried Stroh , Martin Zimmermann : Divus Augustus, The first Roman emperor and his world. Munich: CH Beck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66139-6 (Googlebook)
  11. ↑ Velleius , Historia Romana , 2,102,1 (online)
  12. ↑ Hans Peter Syndikus : Die Lyrik des Horace, an interpretation of the odes. Northwestern University: WBG, 2001, ISBN 978-3-534-15180-6 , p. 350 (Googlebook)
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SURNAME Marcius Censorinus, Gaius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, consul 8 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH around 50 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH at 3