Marcus Aurelius Scaurus
Marcus Aurelius Scaurus († 105 BC ) was a Roman politician and general .
Political career
Marcus Aurelius Scaurus was in 118/117 BC. He was a member of the magistrate who was founded in the Roman colony of Narbo and had five different types of denarius minted together with other minters. In Rome he practiced around 117 BC. The bursary and around 111 BC. The praetur . 108 BC After the death of the elected consul, he became consul suffectus .
105 BC He moved to Gaul as a legate of the general Gnaeus Mallius Maximus in order to oppose the Cimbri and Teuton march that had threatened Rome for years . In the run-up to the battle of Arausio , he was supposed to stop the Teutons with a cavalry unit. However, Scaurus was defeated and captured by the Cimbrian general Boiorix . As Livy reports, Boiorix had him angrily killed because he had warned the Cimbri against crossing the Alps; the Romans are invincible.
swell
- Titus Livius : Ad Urbe Condita , Book 67.
literature
- Hans Georg Gundel : Aureilius I 26. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 765.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Albert, The Coins of the Roman Republic, No. 1046-1050
- ^ Lynda Telford: Sulla: A Dictator Reconsidered . Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78303-048-4 , pp. 48-49 .
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| SURNAME | Aurelius Scaurus, Marcus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman senator, consul 105 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 105 BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Gaul |