Lucius Fannius

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Lucius Fannius († after 67 BC) was a general of the Roman Republic who came from the plebeian dynasty of the Fannier and who was temporarily on the side of King Mithridates VI. of Pontus fought against his own homeland.

Life

Lucius Fannius was a supporter of the Roman general Gaius Flavius ​​Fimbria . Together with Lucius Magius , he took part in the First Mithridatic War under Fimbria's command . Both men were so deeply involved in Fimbria's machinations that after his downfall at the end of 85 BC they became so involved. Preferred to King Mithridates VI. fled from Pontus than to change to Sulla's side . A few years later they convinced Mithridates to enter into negotiations with Quintus Sertorius , who was operating on the Iberian Peninsula against Rome and with whose support he could gain rule over Asia Minor and neighboring countries. They then acted in 75 BC. As ambassadors of the Pontic king, they left their residence at that time Myndos in Caria and sailed to Dianium in Spain to enter into an alliance with Sertorius in Mithridates' name. This accepted the offer and sent the Senator Marcus Marius as his plenipotentiary to his new ally; Marius was to serve the Pontic ruler as a general. Fannius and Magius also returned to Mithridates.

As a result, Fannius and Magius took part on the side of the Pontic monarch in his third war against Rome, and accordingly Fannius is 73 BC. Mentioned as one of the military leaders of Mithridates. After Sertorius' murder (72 BC), however, the two men, ostracized as enemies of the state by the Roman Senate , began to contact Lucius Licinius Lucullus , through whose mediation they achieved a reconciliation with Rome and were able to return. Fannius served in 68/67 BC As a legate of Lucullus during his military expedition to Armenia and was besieged in Gordyene by King Tigranes II, who was allied with Mithridates . There is no tradition about his further life.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dating after Fritz Geyer: Mithridates 12). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XV, 2, Stuttgart 1932, Col. 2180.
  2. ↑ Cicero , In Verrem actio 2, 1, 87 with the commentary of the Pseudo Asconius , p. 244 ed. Stangl; Orosius 6, 2, 12; Appian , Mithridatius 68 and 70; Sallust , Historiae , Fragment 2, 78 ed. Maurenbrecher; Plutarch , Sertorius 23f .; Plutarch, Lucullus 8 and 12.
  3. ↑ Orosius 6, 2, 16ff.
  4. ^ Cicero, In Verrem actio 2, 1, 87 with the commentary by Pseudo-Asconius, p. 244 ed. Stangl.
  5. ↑ Appian, Mithridatius 72 (who only mentions Magius).
  6. ↑ Cassius Dio 36, 8, 2; see. Pseudo-Asconius, p. 244 ed. Stangl.
personal data
SURNAME Fannius, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman general
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 67 BC Chr.