Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus

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Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus (* . 12 BC. ; † 59 / 60 ) was a Roman Senator of the 1st century AD..

He was the first member of the Ummidian family from Casinum in southern Lazio to enter the Senate. His father was also called Gaius. Two possibilities are usually considered as the reason for having two gentile names : Either he came from the Durmier family and was then adopted by a Gaius Ummidius, or he was the biological son of an Ummidius and a Durmia. In any case, he was probably related to Marcus Durmius, who lived around 19th BC. Is documented as mint master .

The career of Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus is best known from inscriptions and began as decemvir stlitibus iudicandis . In 14 he was quaestor , in 16 curular aedile and 18 praetor . He then worked as curator tabularum publicarum (responsible for the Senate Chancellery) and praefectus frumenti dandi (responsible for the free grain distribution in Rome). He then officiated as proconsul of the province of Cyprus (between about 22 and 31, probably relatively early) and Legate of Lusitania (between about 31 and 39, probably 37).

In 39/40 he reached the suffect consulate as homo novus - due to his long tenure as governor, only more than twenty years after the praetur and therefore relatively late. After that he was governor of an Illyrian province, either of Pannonia or of Dalmatia, under the rule of Claudius . From 50/51 he finally administered the province of Syria , where he died around 59/60 and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo succeeded him.

He may have been buried in Casinum. Ummidius, and after him his daughter Ummidia Quadratilla, had several extensive construction projects carried out there. According to a fragmentary inscription, he is said to have "splendidly decorated" the theater which Ummidia later restored. Archaeological research suggests, however, that he did not completely rebuild it, but had a building from the early Augustan period expanded. Also found in the theater of Casinum was the larger than life statue of a naked swordtail now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum, possibly showing Ummidius.

Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus belonged to the sacral college of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis and was a citizen of the city of Atina . His great-grandson Gaius Ummidius Quadratus became a suffect consul in 118.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CIL 10, 5182 = Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 972.
  2. ↑ CIL 10,5180
  3. ↑ CIL 6, 1496
  4. ^ CIL 02, 172 = Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 190.
  5. ↑ Ronald Syme : Missing Persons III. In: Historia. Zeitschrift für alten Geschichte , Volume 11, Number 2, 1962, pp. 146–155, here p. 154.
  6. ^ Walter Reidinger: The governors of the undivided Pannonia and Upper Pannonia from Augustus to Diocletian. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1956, p. 36 f.
  7. ^ Adolf Jagenteufel: The governors of the Roman province of Dalmatia from Augustus to Diocletian. RM Rohrer, Vienna 1958, p. 24 ff.
  8. ^ Tacitus , Annals XIV, 26.
  9. ↑ AE 1946, 174 and AE 1992, 244 , for the reconstruction cf. Maurizio Fora: Ummidia Quadratilla ed il restauro del teatro di Cassino (Per una nuova lettura di AE 1946, 174). In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik Vol. 94 (1992), pp. 269-273 ( online ).
  10. ^ Frank Sear: Roman Theaters. An architectural study. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, p. 19.
  11. ^ Rudolf Hanslik : Ummidius 4th In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Supplementary volume IX, Stuttgart 1962, col. 1827-1831, here col. 1831.
  12. ↑ Géza Alföldy : A cypriotischer merchant in Pannonia. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 81, 1990, pp. 207–212, here p. 210 ( PDF; 269 kB ).
personal data
SURNAME Ummidius Durmius quadratus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Durmius quadratus, Gaius Ummidius; Quadratus, Gaius Ummidius Durmius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION roman senator
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century