Lucius Caesetius Flavus

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Lucius Caesetius Flavus was a in the middle of the 1st century BC. Living politician of the outgoing Roman Republic . As a tribune of the people of the year 44 BC He got up against the dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar .

Life

Lucius Caesetius Flavus came from the Roman plebeian family of the Caesetians . His father was a knight and had two other sons.

In his people's tribunate 44 BC In BC Caesetius and his colleague Gaius Epidius Marullus removed the diadem from a statue of Caesar that had been placed on the rostrums . Such a wreath of the statue with a symbol of sovereignty would have been equivalent to a declaration by Caesar about the Rex . In addition, the two tribunes had the people who had made the wreath arrested, as well as those who had welcomed Caesar as king. These measures met with great approval from the Roman people. But Caesar brought a complaint about the tribunes before the senators and had their comrade Gaius Helvius Cinna apply for a plebiscite, by which Caesetius and Epidius were removed from their office and excluded from the Senate. The deposed tribunes then left Rome. Caesetius' father stubbornly refused the dictator's request to disinherit his son, who had fallen out of favor with the latter. After Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC. After an assassination attempt, the two main conspirators involved, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus , demanded that Caesetius and Epidius be recalled. This request was fulfilled by a proposal from the praetor Lucius Cornelius Cinna . As a result, Caesetius and Epidius were allowed to run for public offices again, but were not allowed to continue their tribunate. Her further life is unknown.

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  1. ^ Appian , Civil Wars 2, 108; 2, 122; 2, 138; Cassius Dio 44, 9, 3-10, 3; Plutarch , Caesar 61, 3 and Antonius 12, 2; Suetonius , Caesar 79f .; Nikolaos of Damascus , Life of Augustus 20: 5-9 and 22: 1; Valerius Maximus 5, 7, 2; among others
personal data
SURNAME Caesetius Flavus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flavus, Lucius Caesetius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman tribune 44 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 44 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 44 BC Chr.