Lucius Arruntius (consul 22 BC)

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Lucius Arruntius was a politician of the Roman Empire and consul of the year 22 BC. His official colleague was Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus . The acts of the secular celebrations name him as Quindecimvir sacris faciundis in the year 17 BC. Chr.

Possibly he is identical to the Arruntius who lived in 43 BC. By pretending to Sextus Pompeius , later converted to Augustus at the Treaty of Misenum, led the left wing of Augustus' fleet in the battle of Actium and Gaius reconciled Sosius with Augustus.

The characterization of Velleius Paterculus : prisca gravitate celeberrimus makes it probable that he is identical with the historian Lucius Arruntius , who, according to Seneca, wrote a (not preserved) history of the Punic Wars as vir rarae frugitalitatis, imitating the famous historian Sallust in an exaggerated way .

Whether he is also identical with the speaker Lucius Arruntius , who appeared in a trial against Gaius Albucius Silus , is questionable.

Pliny cites a Lucius Arruntius as the source of his work, who could be identical with the consul.

Lucius Arruntius , the consul of 6 AD, is likely to be his son.

literature

  • Paul von Rohden : Arruntius 7 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Sp. 1262.
  • Tim Cornell (Ed.): The fragments of the Roman historians . 3 volumes, Oxford 2013 (vol. 1, pp. 448–450 (introduction); vol. 2, pp. 870–873 (fragments with English translation); vol. 3, pp. 533f. (Commentary)).
  • Dexter Hoyos: A forgotten Roman historian. L. Arruntius and the "true" causes of the First Punic War . In: Antichthon 23 (1989), pp. 51-66.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini , CIL I, 28 ; Fasti min. VII. X; CIL I, 64 ; CIL I, 85 ; Tacitus , Annals XI 6. 7: ad summa provectos incorrupta vita et faciunda .
  2. ↑ Ephemeris epigraphica VIII , pp. 228, 45, 233, 151, 240, 5; CIL X, 5055
  3. ^ Appian , Civil Wars IV 46.
  4. ^ Velleius Paterculus 2, 77, 3.
  5. ↑ Velleius 2, 85, 2; see. Cassius Dio 50, 14, 1.
  6. ^ Velleius 2, 86, 2.
  7. ^ Velleius 2, 86, 2.
  8. ↑ Seneca, epistulae 114, 17.
  9. ↑ Seneca , controversiae VII praef. 7; see. Quintilian . IX 2nd, 95 .; Suetone . rhet. 6.
  10. ↑ Pliny, naturalis historia I 3. 5. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Arruntius, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and general
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC BC or 1st century