Marcus Cocceius Nerva (Consul 36 BC)

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Marcus Cocceius Nerva was a politician of the outgoing Roman Republic , 36 BC. Chr. Consul and the great-grandfather of Emperor Nerva .

Life

The family of Marcus Cocceius Nerva came from Umbria . Silver coins minted by him have survived, on which the name and portrait of the triumvirs Octavian and Marcus Antonius appear. As can be seen from such coins, he was 41 BC. BC Proquaestor propraetore of Mark Antony in the east. While his brother Lucius Cocceius Nerva was friends with both triumvirs, he himself probably took part on the side of the latter during Octavian's military conflict with Lucius Antonius during the Peruvian War . Octavian defeated his opponent in the beginning of 40 BC. Crucial, but spared Marcus Cocceius Nerva out of consideration for his brother Lucius.

Later, Marcus Cocceius Nerva took part in warlike actions of Mark Antony in Asia and received the title of emperor ; possibly he was 38/37 BC Governor of the province of Asia , where several cities honored him as imperator and consul-designate. In recognition of his services to Antonius, he was allowed to 36 BC. Officiate as an ordinary consul, with Lucius Gellius Publicola as an official colleague. For the last time he is 17 BC. BC testifies in which year he took part in the secular celebration in his capacity as Quindecimvir sacris faciundis . He had a son of the same name who was a suffect consul around AD 22 .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dietmar Kienast : Cocceius [4]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , column 49.
  2. ↑ Appian , Civil Wars 5,61,256.
  3. ↑ Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) 4.604 (Teos); Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae (ILS) 8780 = inscriptions from Stratonikeia 509 (Lagina); AE 1968, 480 (Ephesus). On the governorship cf. T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 2: 99 BC - 31 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 2, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1952, p. 392.
  4. ↑ CIL 11, 6673 ; Cassius Dio 49,1,1 and index to book 49; among others
  5. ↑ CIL 6, 32323 .
personal data
SURNAME Cocceius Nerva, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 36 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 17 BC Chr.