Lucius Roscius Fabatus

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Lucius Roscius Fabatus (* around 95-90 BC probably in Lanuvium ; † 43 BC in Forum Gallorum near Mutina) was a Roman politician of the late republic.

He came from the plebeian family of Roscier from Lanuvium , a Latin city known for its temple and cult of Juno Sospita. His political career ( cursus honorum ) began in 64 BC. As mint master . For the year 55 BC He was elected tribune of the people . During his tenure he worked with four of his fellow officials to create the lex Mamilia Roscia Alliena Peducaea Fabia . In the following year Roscius, who was a supporter of Gaius Iulius Caesar as a representative of a popular policy , is proven as commander in the staff of Caesar, where he took on various tasks. Probably as a legate , he led the 13th Legion to the winter camp in the Esubian area. After serving in Gaul , he continued to work as a partisan of Caesar in the Senate.

In 49 BC Chr. Roscius was elected praetor and tried to negotiate between the Senate and Caesar and to enable a balance of interests. After Caesar in 49 BC Having crossed the Rubicon and thus triggered the civil war, he traveled with Lucius Julius Caesar and other senators on behalf of the Senate to Ariminum to negotiate with Caesar. After the negotiations in Ariminum he went to Capua and brought Pompey , the consuls and parts of the Senate who were there after they had fled from Rome, a counter-proposal from Caesar. Pompey and the Senate were ready to accept this offer with substantial modifications added. With the answer, Roscius and Lucius Caesar traveled again to Gaius Caesar, who, however, declined the requested additions to his proposal. Roscius' mediation missions could not prevent the escalation of the civil war.

After Caesar's murder, Roscius got caught up in the clashes between supporters and opponents of the dead dictator. He fell on 14./15. April of the year 43 BC At the Battle of Forum Gallorum , during the skirmishes for the siege of Mutina between Mark Antony and the senatorial army under the consul Gaius Vibius Panza Caetronianus and Caesar's heir Octavian .

literature

  • Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The magistrates of the Roman republic . Volume 2, New York 1952, pp. 216, 257, 264, 353. Volume 3, Atlanta 1986, p. 181.
  • William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . London 1867, page 130

Remarks

  1. ^ So the dating of Michael Crawford: Roman republican coinage . Volume 1, pp. 439-440, No. 412. In the older literature to 58 v. Chr. Dated.
  2. ↑ Caesar, de bello Gallico 5, 24 and 53.
  3. ^ Caesar, de bello civili 1, 3.
  4. ^ Caesar, de bello civili 1, 8.
  5. ↑ Caesar, de bello civili 1, 10; Cicero, ad Atticum 8, 12; Cassius Dio 41, 5.
  6. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 10, 33.
personal data
SURNAME Roscius Fabatus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roscius, Lucius Fabatus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and senator
DATE OF BIRTH around 90 BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Lanuvium
DATE OF DEATH 43 BC Chr.
Place of death Forum Gallorum at Mutina