Lucius Sempronius Atratinus (suffect consul 34 BC)

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Lucius Sempronius Atratinus (* 73 BC ; † 7 AD) was a politician of the late Roman Republic and early Imperial times. 34 BC He officiated as a suffect consul .

Life

Lucius Sempronius Atratinus was a son of around 57 BC. Lucius Calpurnius Bestia, officiating as plebeian aedile . His year of birth is 73 BC. Chr. Handed down. When he was still a child, he was adopted by an unknown Lucius Sempronius, whose aim was to ensure the continued existence of his family. With the settlement of the nickname Atratinus, he linked to the in the 5th century BC. Occurring and as patrician branch of the Sempronii Atratini , while in historically certain time of the Roman Republic since the end of the 4th century BC. Only plebeian branches of the Sempronians appeared.

The first public appearance of Sempronius is for 56 BC. When he brought a lawsuit against Marcus Caelius Rufus . This was a reaction to the fact that his biological father Lucius Calpurnius Bestia had recently been prosecuted by Caelius for unauthorized purchase of votes (Ambitus) . Caelius made fun of the prosecutor, who was only seventeen, whose speech came from the professional rhetoric teacher Lucius Plotius Gallus . On the other hand, Cicero , who acted as defender of Caelius, expressed his respect for Sempronius in the speech he received for his client with polite words. The process went in favor of Caelius.

Due to a lack of mentions in the surviving sources, Sempronius' living conditions are unknown during the following 15 years. It does not appear until 40 BC. BC when he took over the religious office of augur and politically was one of the followers of the triumvir Marcus Antonius . In the same year he could also have held the Praetor . End of 40 BC He stood up in the Senate for Herod , who had traveled to Rome, who had fled from the Parthian invasion and was now asking for Roman military help to recapture Judea .

In the following time Sempronius worked in the function of a legatus pro praetore for Antonius in Greece , where a statue of him with a preserved inscription was erected in the city of Hypata . His wife Marcia Censorina received an honor in Patrai at that time . Sparta issued coins with the portrait and name of Sempronius. Sempronius himself coined around 39 BC. In an unknown mint for Antonius.

When the triumvir Octavian (who later became Emperor Augustus ) fought several years of military conflicts with Sextus Pompeius , especially in the area around Sicily , he was supported by Antony by sending a squadron. One of its commanders was 36 BC. BC Sempronius, as can be seen from coin finds from Lilybaeum , among others . On January 1, 34 BC Antonius went to his second consulate , but immediately abdicated, so that Sempronius could now move up as a suffect consul. His counterpart was Lucius Scribonius Libo .

In the now worsening conflict between the triumvirs, Sempronius switched to Octavian's side at a time that could not be precisely determined, who was able to win the power struggle. Sempronius was probably paid for in 22 BC. He was appointed proconsul of the province of Africa and, according to the testimony of the Triumphal Acts, was allowed to return home in the autumn of 21 BC. Celebrate a triumph .

At the relatively old age of 80, Sempronius died in 7 AD, probably killing himself.

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Remarks

  1. ^ A b Inscriptiones Graecae IX, 2, 39 = Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 9461.
  2. ↑ Hieronymus , Chronicle p. 165 ed. Helmet.
  3. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Sempronius 26). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, column 1366.
  4. ↑ Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 1f .; 7f .; 15f .; Suetonius , De grammaticis 26; Jerome, Chronicle p. 165 ed. Helmet.
  5. ↑ CIL 6, 1976 .
  6. ↑ Flavius ​​Josephus , Jüdischer Krieg 1, 284; on this Michael Grant , Kleopatra , 1974, German 1998, ISBN 3-404-61416-X , p. 181f.
  7. ↑ Athanasios D. Rizakes: Achaie, II. La Cité de Patras: Epigraphie et histoire . Athens 1998, No. 33 = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) 30, 433.
  8. ↑ Susanne Grunauer-von Hoerschelmann: The coinage of the Lacedaemonians . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1978 (Ancient coins and cut stones. Volume 7), ISBN 3-11-007222-X , pp. 39, 51, 57 ( excerpt from Google books ).
  9. ↑ Michael Crawford , Roman republican coinage , Volume 1, 1974, p. 533, No. 530 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
  10. ^ Friedrich Münzer: Sempronius 26). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, column 1367.
  11. ^ Cassius Dio 49, 39, 1 ( English translation ).
  12. ↑ CIL 6, 1976 .
  13. ↑ Hieronymus, Chronicle p. 165 ed. Helm (classified under false year of death).
personal data
SURNAME Sempronius Atratinus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atratinus, Lucius Sempronius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul 34 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 73 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 7th