Lucius Cocceius Nerva

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Lucius Cocceius Nerva was an important politician of the late Roman Republic and the great-great-uncle of the emperor Nerva .

Life

Lucius Cocceius Nerva probably came from Narnia in Umbria . When Octavian in the course of the year 41 BC In Italy, when he got into serious disputes with the brother and wife of his triumvirate colleague Mark Antony , Cocceius Nerva (together with Caecina) traveled on behalf of Octavian in the summer of 41 BC. To Mark Antony, because he had a good relationship with both triumvirs. He met Antony in Phenicia and stayed with him while in Italy the disputes between Octavian and Antony's relatives escalated in the Peruvian War (winter 41/40 BC) in which Octavian had the upper hand. Cocceius' brother Marcus had fought on the side of Lucius Antonius in this war.

40 BC BC Lucius Cocceius Nerva traveled back to Italy with Marcus Antonius and initiated the reconciliation between the two triumvirs. As their mutual friend he brought together with Gaius Maecenas, who was on Octavian's side, and Antonius' confidante Gaius Asinius Pollio in the autumn of 40 BC. The contract of Brundisium comes about. When Antonius in the spring of 37 BC BC sailed to Italy again and there were again disagreements between the triumvirs, in addition to Octavian's sister Octavia , Cocceius Nerva, Maecenas and Gaius Fonteius Capito also acted as mediators. These three men went to negotiate with Antonius on behalf of Octavian. The Roman poets Horace and Virgil also took part in their journey from Tarracina via the Appian Way to Brundisium ; The former described this tour poetically. Through the efforts of Octavian's three envoys and those of his sister, it finally came in the summer of 37 BC. BC to the Treaty of Taranto , through whose conclusion the latent enmity between the two triumvirs could be settled for the last time.

Horace states that Cocceius Nerva owned a villa near the central Italian town of Caudium . Nothing is known about Cocceius' later fate.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dietmar Kienast : Cocceius [3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , column 48.
  2. ^ Appian , Civil Wars 5:60 .
  3. ↑ Appian, Civil Wars 5, 60-64; Horace , satires 1, 5, 29.
  4. ↑ Horace, Satires 1: 5; on this the commentary by Pomponius Porphyrio , who refers to the lost historical account of Livy ; see. Appian, Civil Wars 5, 93.
  5. ↑ Horace, Satires 1, 5, 50f.
personal data
SURNAME Cocceius Nerva, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC BC or 1st century