Lucius Furius Camillus (Consul 338 BC)

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Lucius Furius Camillus was a member of the Roman patrician dynasty of the Furians and in 338 and 325 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

According to the filiation of the Triumphal Acts, the father of Lucius Furius Camillus carried the prenomen Spurius and his grandfather the prenomen Marcus . The latter was the famous Marcus Furius Camillus , the most important representative of the Gens Furia . His son Spurius Furius Camillus , the father of the Lucius Furius Camillus treated here, officiated in 366 BC. As the first elected praetor .

338 BC BC Lucius Furius Camillus reached the consulate for the first time, with Gaius Maenius as his colleague. This year the two consuls were able to match the two years earlier, 340 BC. BC, victorious end the erupted Latin War . The old Latin league of cities was dissolved and Latium was now finally under Roman control. The ancient historian Friedrich Münzer holds the for the war events of 338 BC. BC, especially with the Roman historian Titus Livius, the tradition is reasonably credible. According to the Acts of Triumph and Livy, Camillus achieved military successes against the Pedans and Tiburtines , over which he was then allowed to hold a triumph . Equestrian statues of both consuls were erected on the forum as a special honor, probably given for the first time to Roman senators. As a decorative accessory to his story, Livius has Camillus give a speech in which he speaks out in favor of a mild treatment of the defeated Latins .

325 BC BC Camillus was able to assume the highest office again, this time together with Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva . The previous year the second war that Rome waged against the Samnites had broken out. Allegedly because Camillus was seriously ill, he had to give up his command for this war and appoint a dictator to fight the Samnites in his place. This task fell to last year's consul, Lucius Papirius Cursor .

Later, Camillus is no longer mentioned in the sources.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Furius 48). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 350.
  2. ^ Livy 8:13 , 1; Diodorus 17, 2, 1 (without giving Furius' cognomen); among others
  3. ^ Friedrich Münzer: Furius 42). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 323.
  4. ^ Livy 8, 13, 1–9.
  5. ↑ Livy 8:13 , 9; see. Eutropius 2, 7, 3; Marcus Sehlmeyer : City Roman honor statues of the republican time. Historicity and context of symbols of nobility class consciousness (= Historia . Individual writings. 130). Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07479-1 , pp. 48–52, ( limited preview in Google book search; also: Göttingen, Universität, dissertation, 1997/1998).
  6. ^ Livy 8, 13, 10-18.
  7. ↑ Livius 8, 29, 2 (with number of iterations ); Diodor 18, 2, 1 (with slightly distorted gentile name Frurius and again without cognomen); among others
  8. ^ Livy 8:29, 8f.
personal data
SURNAME Furius Camillus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camillus, Lucius Furius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul in 338 and 325 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.