Lucius Caninius Gallus (suffect consul 2 BC)

Lucius Caninius Gallus was a Roman politician and senator of the early Imperial period.

Caninius Gallus came from the plebeian family of the Caninii , who were already represented in the Senate at the time of the Republic and originally came from Tusculum . The consul of the same name from 37 BC BC was probably his father or grandfather. The younger Caninius Gallus seems to have started his career ( cursus honorum ) as a mint master (tresvir monetalis) around 20 BC. To have started. That in the year 2 BC he Chr. As a suffect consul (from August) first Augustus as his colleague, then Gaius Fufius Geminus and Quintus Fabricius , suggests greater reputation. Caninius Gallus was also the proconsul of the province of Africa , probably under Augustus (maybe 5/6 AD). Under Emperor Tiberius he acted as chairman of the curatores alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacarum urbis , which were responsible for the supervision of the bed and the banks of the Tiber as well as the sewage of the city of Rome .

Caninius Gallus belonged to the college of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis . In this function he enforced the inclusion of a new book under the Sibylline Books by Senate resolution in 32 AD, but was reprimanded by Tiberius for his hasty action.

literature

• Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian (= Skrifter utgivna av svenska institutet i Rom / Acta instituti romani regni sueciae. Volume 4 °, LIII). Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 27.
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani , 2nd edition, C 390.
• Edmund Groag : Caninius 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 1477 f.

Remarks

1. ↑ Father: PIR² C 390. Grandfather: Ronald Syme : The Augustan aristocracy. Oxford 1986, p. 88 with note 44.
2. ↑ Edmund Groag : Caninius 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 1477 f.
3. ↑ AE 1938, 2 (from Lepcis Magna ): L (ucius) Caninius L (uci) f (ilius) Gallus XVvir sacris fac (iundis) / co (n) s (ul) proco (n) s (ul) patron ( us) dedic (avit) ( image of the inscription  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).  
4. ↑ Tacitus , Annals 6:12 .