Lucius Tarrutius

Lucius Tarrutius (also Tarutius and Taruntius ) from Firmum (hence also Lucius Tarrutius Firmanus ) was a Roman philosopher and astrologer of the 1st century BC. He was friends with both the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro and Marcus Tullius Cicero .

For Varro he created the horoscope of Romulus and calculated the founding date of Rome , from which he deduced its future fate. According to this, Romulus was conceived on the 23rd Choiak of the Egyptian calendar in the 1st year of the 2nd Olympiad (June 24th, 772 BC) in the 3rd hour of the day, during a total solar eclipse and on the 21st of Death in the 2nd year of the 2nd Olympiad (i.e. March 21, 771 BC) born. The city of Rome was founded on the 9th Pharmouthi between the 2nd and 3rd hour of the day, although the year of the foundation according to Tarrutius is not known. Presumably it is the 1st year of the 6th Olympiad, the date October 4th 754 BC. The horoscope of the city of Rome based on this is handed down by Solinus .

The lunar crater Taruntius is named after him.

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Cicero de divinatione 2.98f
Plutarch Romulus 12.3-6
Marcus Manilius astronomica 4,773
Solinus de mirabilibus mundi 1.18
John Lydos de mensibus 1:14

literature

Jörg Fündling : Tarrutius. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , column 37.
Anthony Grafton, Noel Swerdlow: Technical Chronology and Astrological History in Varro, Censorinus, and Others. In: Classical Quarterly , Vol. 35 No. 2 (1985), pp. 454-465
Wilhelm Kroll : Tarrutius 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 2, Stuttgart 1932, Col. 2408 f.

Individual evidence

↑ On this day a partial solar eclipse took place, but not one visible in Europe. See Catalog of Solar Eclipses: -0799 to -0700 (No. 02917 -0771 June 24th 2:24:39 pm)
^ Anthony Grafton , Noel Swerdlow : Technical Chronology and Astrological History in Varro, Censorinus, and Others. In: Classical Quarterly , Vol. 35 No. 2 (1985), pp. 457ff

personal data
SURNAME	Tarrutius, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tarutius, Lucius; Taruntius, Lucius; Tarrutius Firmanus, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman philosopher and astrologer
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	1st century BC BC or 1st century

[1] On this day a partial solar eclipse took place, but not one visible in Europe. See Catalog of Solar Eclipses: -0799 to -0700 (No. 02917 -0771 June 24th 2:24:39 pm)

[2] Anthony Grafton , Noel Swerdlow : Technical Chronology and Astrological History in Varro, Censorinus, and Others. In: Classical Quarterly , Vol. 35 No. 2 (1985), pp. 457ff