Lucius Iulius Caesar (Consul 64 BC)

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Lucius Iulius Caesar (* probably 110/108 BC; † 40 BC) was a Roman politician in the 1st century BC. Chr.

Life

Lucius Iulius Caesar was first mint master around the year 90 BC. Occupied; that year his father of the same name was consul . His sister Julia was successively married to Mark Antony Creticus (from this marriage came the later triumvir Mark Antony ) and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura .

In 77 BC BC Lucius Caesar was quaestor and served in the province of Asia , as an inscription found in Ilion shows. No later than 67 BC He must have been praetor , since he was responsible for the year 64 BC. Was elected consul. During his tenure, the Senate passed resolutions on restrictions on election applications and on the prohibition of collegia .

Together with Gaius Iulius Caesar , the later dictator , who was probably the son of his cousin, Lucius Caesar was 63 BC. In the trial against Gaius Rabirius as a special judge (duumvir perduellionis) . Later that year he voted for the execution of his brother-in-law Publius Lentulus Sura, who was a Catilinarian . Recent inscription readings have shown that Lucius Caesar was probably one of the two censors of the year 61 BC. Was (together with Gaius Scribonius Curio ).

From 52 BC It served as a legate under Gaius Caesar in the Gallic War and was responsible for the provincia Narbonensis . As a legate of Caesar, he was also used at the beginning of the civil war in 49 BC. Mentioned. 47 BC His nephew Mark Antony, who was the magister equitum of the dictator Caesar, appointed him as city ​​prefect because he had to leave the city of Rome because of a mutiny of the legions in Campania. According to Cassius Dio , Lucius Caesar found it difficult to discipline troublesome tribunes because of his advanced age .

In the civil war after Caesar's assassination, Lucius Caesar was supposed to be in March 43 BC. Belong to an embassy of the Senate to Antonius, which was never sent. After the establishment of the Second Triumvirate at the end of the year, he was proscribed , but pardoned because his sister Julia stood up for him with her son Antonius.

Perhaps since 88 BC BC, at the latest since 80 BC BC, Lucius Caesar belonged to the college of augurs and also wrote writings on augural law. He probably died in 40 BC. BC, since this year his presumed successor Lucius Sempronius Atratinus appears as an augur.

His son of the same name was a supporter of Pompey during the civil war.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Wilhelm Dittenberger , Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae 444 = inscriptions from Ilion 10 .
  2. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero , Pro Murena 71 .
  3. ^ Cassius Dio 37, 27 ( English translation ).
  4. ↑ AE 1980, 854 ; Inscriptions from Ilion 71 may also name him and not his father as the censor.
  5. ^ Caesar, de bello Gallico 7, 65 .
  6. ^ Caesar, de bello civili 1, 8, 2 .
  7. ^ Cassius Dio 42, 30 ( English translation ).
  8. ^ Cicero, Philippica 12:18 .
  9. ↑ CIL 6, 1976 . See Jörg Rüpke : Fasti sacerdotum. The members of the priesthoods and the sacred functional staff of Roman, Greek, Oriental and Judeo-Christian cults in the city of Rome from 300 BC. BC to AD 499. Volume 1: Annual and collegiate lists (= Potsdamer Classical Studies . 12, 1). Steiner, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-515-07456-2 , p. 138.
personal data
SURNAME Julius Caesar, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caesar, Lucius Iulius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician; Consul 64 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: between 110 BC BC and 108 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 40 BC Chr.