Lucius Caninius Gallus (Tribune 56 BC)

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Lucius Caninius Gallus († 44 BC ) came from the Roman plebeian family of the Caninii and was 56 BC. Chr. Tribune .

Life

Lucius Caninius Gallus, whose prenomen Lucius is not mentioned by Cicero , but can only be found in the index to the 48th book of Cassius Dios Roman History , appears for the first time in 59 BC. As one of the three accusers of Gaius Antonius Hybrida . Although Antonius Hybrida was defended by Cicero in his repetition trial, he had to accept his condemnation and go into exile in Kephallenia . But one of his daughters became the wife of Caninius Gallus.

56 BC Caninius Gallus held the office of tribune of the people . At that time the Roman domestic politics moved the question of the repatriation of the expelled Ptolemy XII. who had gone to Italy and asked for military assistance for his reinstatement as Egyptian king. In the Senate meeting of January 14, 56 BC BC (pre-Julian) five different motions on this topic were discussed. According to one of these proposals, it was not the Cilician governor Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther , but Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus who should repatriate Ptolemy XII. take over, but are not allowed to use a force, but are only accompanied by two lictors . According to the more likely version of Cicero, Publius Rutilius Lupus made this request, according to Plutarch, however, Caninius Gallus. No resolution was passed due to a debate on the rules of procedure.

In the year after his tribunate, 55 BC. BC, Caninius Gallus faced an indictment and, at Pompey's request, received Cicero as defense counsel. 51 BC BC he stayed in Greece and often met in Athens with Cicero, who was on the way to Cilicia . 46 BC Caninius Gallus was the guest of this speaker, with whom he also corresponded, and paid a visit to his friend, the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in Baiae . His death falls in the year 44 BC. He had a son of the same name who lived in 37 BC. Reached the consulate .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Valerius Maximus 4, 2, 6.
  2. ^ Helmut Halfmann : Marcus Antonius . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-21727-4 , p. 26.
  3. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 1, 12, 3 and 1, 13, 2.
  4. ↑ Plutarch, Pompeius 49, 10 (who incorrectly calls Caninius Gallus Canidius ).
  5. ↑ Werner Huss , Egypt in the Hellenistic Period 332–30 BC Chr. , CH Beck, Munich, 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 , p. 690, note 61.
  6. ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 7, 1, 4.
  7. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 2, 8, 3.
  8. ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 9, 2, 1; 9, 3, 1; 9, 6, 1.
  9. ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 16, 14, 4.
personal data
SURNAME Caninius Gallus, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman tribune 56 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 44 BC Chr.