Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus

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Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus was a Roman statesman in the first half of the 3rd century from the gens Fulvia , who from the end of the 4th century BC. BC had grown in importance.

According to the fasti Capitolini , Centumalus was the son and grandson of a Gnaeus . Because of the filiation of the same name, his brother could be Marcus Fulvius Paetinus , consul in 299 BC. BC, have been. Certainly related to them are the contemporaneous Fulvii Curvi , which however led the prenomen Lucius.

As legate of Marcus Valerius Maximus Corvus , he distinguished himself in 302 BC. In the fight against the Etruscans through cunning. In 298 he became consul with Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus . There is disagreement in the sources about the battles of the consuls: According to Livy , Centumalus triumphed against the Samnites at Bovianum and then conquered this together with the city of Aufidena ; According to Frontinus , he also marched to Lucania , but there is evidence that his colleague was standing there. On November 13, 298, he celebrated a triumph over the Samnites and Etruscans for his successes . In the year 295 he moved with the imperial empire towards Clusium in Etruria , thus ensuring the withdrawal of Etruscan contingents before the battle of Sentinum .

More than 30 years after his consulate, he became dictator clavi figendi causa - an office that had last been held 50 years earlier. Soon after, he will have died. Descendants were the consul of 229, Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus , and the consul of the same name of 211, who fell in 210 against Hannibal .

literature

  • Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. 15, 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 174, 178, 204.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Livy 10: 4, 8-12.
  2. ↑ Livy 10:12, 9. The stratagems in Frontinus, war lists 1,6,2 also belong in this context . 11.2, who assigns this to a Fulvius Nobilior , but the circumstances of the time speak for a reference to Centumalus.
  3. ↑ Frontinus, war lists 1,6,1 (again confusion with Fulvius Nobilior ).
  4. ↑ The fasti triumphales speak of a triumph de Samnitibus Etrusceisque ; differently Livy 10.13.1 (only Samnites).
  5. ↑ Livy 10,27,5f. 30.1f.
personal data
SURNAME Fulvius Maximus Centumalus, Gnaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maximus Centumalus, Marcus Fulvius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 298 BC And dictator 263 BC. Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.