Lucius Marcius Censorinus (Consul 39 BC)

Lucius Marcius Censorinus was a Roman politician and senator in the middle of the first century BC. Chr.

Lucius Marcius Censorinus was nephew of Gaius Marcius Censorinus . He came from a family that were followers of Gaius Marius and thus belonged to the followers of his nephew Gaius Iulius Caesar . Marcius is first recorded when he wanted to protect Caesar when he was murdered on the Ides of March . After Caesar's death he became a follower of Mark Antony and 43 BC. Chr. Praetor . During the civil war-like conditions, he followed Marcus Antonius and was ostracized by the Senate . After the equalization of the second triumvirate , Marcius returned and acquired the town house of Marcus Tullius Cicero, who had been murdered during the proscription . 42 BC Marcius Censorinus became the propaetor of Achaea and Macedonia and stayed until 40 BC. BC incumbent. In 39 BC He became consul with Gaius Calvisius Sabinus . His tenure began with a triumph for success in Macedonia . Probably it will still be 17 BC. Mentioned at the secular games and has thus survived the end of Mark Antony. His son Gaius Marcius Censorinus officiated in the year 8 BC. As an ordinary consul.

literature

• Karl-Ludwig Elvers : [I 8] M. Censorinus, L. In: Der Neue Pauly Vol. 7 (1999), Col. 858
• T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 2: 99 BC - 31 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 2, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1952, p. 368.
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani M 223

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• The Fragments of the Greek Historians 90 F 130, p. 410
• Cicero : Philippine speeches 11:36
• Velleius Paterculus 2,14,3
• Inscriptiones Graecae II / III 4113
• Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI 32323