Gnaeus Octavius ​​(Consul 76 BC)

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Gnaeus Octavius was a late Republic Roman politician.

Octavius ​​was a son of the tribune Marcus Octavius and a grandson of a Gnaeus Octavius ​​(probably the consul of 128 BC ). Presumably he was in the year 79 BC. Chr. Praetor urbanus and defined in the formula Octaviana, so-called by the later jurists, the criminal offense of coercion through fear (metus) . By means of an edict , he created the exceptio metus , which became part of the exceptio doli as early as the early imperial era .

76 BC Octavius ​​was consul . He was friends with Marcus Tullius Cicero . Probably the aedile and Pompeian naval commander in the civil war, Marcus Octavius , was his son.

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Bruce W. Frier: Urban Praetors and Rural Violence. The Legal Background of Cicero's Pro Caecina . In: Transactions of the American Philological Association . No. 113, 1983, pp. 221-241, especially pp. 222, 232-233 .
  2. ^ Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 287 f.
  3. ↑ Ulpian in Dig. 44.4.4.27−32.
  4. ↑ Cicero, de finibus 2, 93: optimum atque humanissimum virum, Cn. Octavium, Marci filium, familiarem meum .
personal data
SURNAME Octavius, Gnaeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, consul 76 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 118 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 77 BC Chr.