Lucius Tillius Cimber
Lucius Tillius Cimber (also Tullius Cimber in the sources ) was a Roman senator in the 1st century BC. And one of the conspirators against Gaius Iulius Caesar .
It is not clear whether Tillius Cimber is identical with the Roman Lucius Tillius, son of Lucius , who lived in 62 BC. Was honored in Delphi . He was a follower of Caesar and maybe 45 BC. During the dictatorship of Caesar, praetor , as he was proconsul of the province of Bithynia et Pontus in the following year . He had been nominated for this office before the assassination attempt on Caesar on the Ides of March (March 15, 44 BC), in which Tillius Cimber played an important role: he is supposed to ask the dictator to pardon his (otherwise little-known ) asked exiled brother; when he yanked Caesar's toga off his shoulder, that was the prearranged sign for the other assassins.
After the assassination, Tillius set out for his province and raised an army and a fleet. In the following year he operated with the fleet (under the command of Decimus Turullius ) and army against Publius Cornelius Dolabella . 42 BC He commanded the land and naval forces of the Caesar murderers , with which he temporarily achieved successes against troops of the triumvirs under Lucius Decidius Saxa and Gaius Norbanus Flaccus . He took part in the battles of Philippi, which ended with the defeat of the Caesar murderers. There is no further news about Tillius Cimber.
The Roman philosopher and civil servant Seneca described him as a man who was immoderate “with wine and an argument” (Letters to Lucilius, 83.12.). It is believed that the nickname Cimber does not come from a victory over the Cimbri , but was added to him because of his addiction to drink and quarrel.
literature
- Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The magistrates of the Roman republic . Volume 2. New York 1952, pp. 306, 329, 348, 365.
- Katja Doubek: Lexicon of Assassinations. Famous conspiracies, conspiracies and attacks . Eichborn Verlag, ISBN 3-8218-1606-6 .
- Hans Georg Gundel : Tillius 3rd In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 830 f.
Remarks
- ^ Collection of Greek Dialect Inscriptions 2, 2688 .
- ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero , Philippicae 2:27 ; Plutarch , Caesar 66, 5-6 and Brutus 17, 3-4 ; Suetonius , Divus Iulius 82, 1 ; Appian , Civil Wars 2, 117 .
- ^ Appian Civil Wars 3, 2 .
- ^ Appian, Civil Wars 3, 6 .
- ↑ a b Cicero, ad familiares 12, 13, 3 .
- ↑ Cicero, ad Brutum 1, 6, 3 ; Cassius Dio 47, 31 .
- ^ Appian, Civil Wars 4, 102-104 .
- ^ Appian, Civil Wars 4, 105 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tillius Cimber, Lucius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tullius Cimber, Lucius; Cimber, Lucius Tillius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman senator and co-conspirator against Gaius Julius Caesar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 44 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |