Lucius Marcius Censorinus (Consul 149 BC)

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Lucius Marcius Censorinus was a Roman politician and senator in the mid-second century BC. Chr.

Gaius Marcius Censorinus was 160 BC. He was a curular aedile and probably had the Hecyra of Terence performed by the ludi Romani in this capacity . No later than 152 BC. He reached the office of praetor . 149 BC He finally became consul at the side of Manius Manilius . As consul he commanded the fleet during the Third Punic War , while his counterpart commanded the land army. Before Utica , he was one of those who came up with the plan to first disarm the Carthaginians and then force them to leave the city. But the Carthaginians desperately defended their city, neither the siege of the south side nor several smaller naval operations in the summer were resounding success. In the autumn Marcius returned to Rome to hold the elections there. Two years later, 147 BC. He was elected censor , details of the censorship have not survived. Censorinus was evidently open to Greek education, and the scholar Kleitomachos dedicated one of his writings to him.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kierdorf : [I 7] M. Censorinus, L. In: Der Neue Pauly Vol. 7 (1999), Col. 858.
  • T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 458 and 463, (Unchanged reprint 1968).

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personal data
SURNAME Marcius Censorinus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Censorinus, Lucius Marcius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and senator
DATE OF BIRTH before 160 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 147 BC Chr.