Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus

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According to tradition, Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus († after 439 BC) was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC. Chr.

He belonged to the gens Minucia , an ancient Roman patrician family . His father was Publius Minucius Augurinus , the consul of the year 492 BC. BC, and thus he was the brother of Quintus Minucius Esquilinus , who in 457 BC Reached the consulate.

Lucius was born in 458 BC. Chr. Suffektkonsul as a colleague of Gaius Nautius Rutilus . During his tenure he went into battle against the Aequer and was enclosed with his army at Algidus , but freed by the dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus .

In 450 BC BC Minucius belonged to the Decemvirn . During this time, another defeat against the Aequer is reported, but this could also be an interpolation from a later time.

In 440 and 439 BC He was praefectus annonae and thus responsible for the grain supply of the city of Rome. During a great famine in these two years, the wealthy plebeian Spurius Maelius tried to buy the favor of the people by donating grain, after which he was accused by Minucius. A statue was erected for Minucius for his services.

The consulates of the Minucians are - according to the unanimous opinion within the scientific community - all to be removed from the consull lists, as they were later, probably around 300 BC. Were interpolated. In the early phase of the republic only patricians could get to the consular office, but the gens Minucia was clearly plebeian.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unmodified 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), p. 39
  2. ↑ Compare the argumentation with Robert Werner : The beginning of the Roman republic. Historical-chronological studies of the early days of the libera res publica . Munich / Vienna: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1963, pp. 256-259

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SURNAME Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esquilinus Augurinus, Lucius Minucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul 458 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 439 BC Chr.