Gaius Sextius Calvinus (speaker)
Gaius Sextius Calvinus was a politician and orator in the late Roman Republic .
He was probably the son of the consul of the same name from 124 BC. Perhaps it can be identified with that for the year 111 BC. Quaestor Sextius mentioned . His praetur is better secured , probably in the year 92 BC. An inscription indicates that by order of the Senate he restored the altar of an unknown deity on the Palatine Hill; however, the identification is not completely certain.
Sextius Calvinus is counted by Marcus Tullius Cicero among the most important speakers in Roman history. Its heyday was during Cicero's childhood in the 90s BC. According to Cicero, Sextius was an opponent of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus and friend of Gaius Iulius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus .
literature
- Volker Fadinger : Sextius I. 5. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 156.
Remarks
- ↑ Sallust, Iugurthinischer Krieg 29, 4-6 ; see. Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The magistrates of the Roman republic . Volume 3, Atlanta 1986, p. 197.
- ↑ CIL 1, 801 .
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| SURNAME | Sextius Calvinus, Gaius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Calvinus, Gaius Sextius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman orator and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC Chr. |