Manius Otacilius Crassus
Manius Otacilius Crassus was an important Roman politician during the First Punic War .
Otacilius came to the consulate as homo novus in 263 together with Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla . Both were sent to Sicily with four legions , and achieved considerable success. As a result, the king of Syracuse , Hieron II, was ready to enter into an alliance with Rome. His colleague's successes seem to have been more significant, as his adoption of the cognomen Messalla (after the Sicilian city of Messana) indicates. Also in his second consulate in 246 Otacilius fought with his counterpart Marcus Fabius Licinus in Sicily. This led to a positional war with the Carthaginian commander Hamilkar Barkas .
When Otacilius died is beyond our knowledge; his younger brother reached the consulate in 261. The Otacilii , who came from Benevento , owed their rise to their close association with the Fabians . After the Second Punic War , the gens disappeared before experiencing another brief boom at the end of the republic.
literature
- Bruno Bleckmann : The Roman Nobility in the First Punic War. Investigations into aristocratic competition in the republic. Akademie Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003738-5 , pp. 85-95 ( Klio Beih. NF 10).
- Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic . Volume 1, New York 1951, pp. 203f., 216.
Remarks
- ↑ Consular fasting : M '. Otacilius C. f. M '. n. Crassus .
- ↑ Polybios 1:16; Diodorus 23.4; Zonaras 8: 9, 10-16.
- ^ Friedrich Münzer : Roman aristocratic parties and noble families . Stuttgart 1920, pp. 64 and 70-72.
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| SURNAME | Otacilius Crassus, Manius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crassus, Manius Otacilius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 263 BC BC and 246 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |