Marcus Geganius Macerinus

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Marcus Geganius Macerinus († 431 BC ) was a politician and general of the Roman Republic . He was three times consul .

origin

He came from the patrician gens Gegania, who probably came from Alba Longa , like the Julians , and from there, after the city was conquered and destroyed by the Romans under their king Tullus Hostilius, they moved to Rome. Marcus Geganius Macerinus was the most important representative of his family in the 5th century.

Political offices and general

His position in society was important, so that he was not only elected consul three times, but also when the office of censor was introduced together with Gaius Furius Pacilus Fusus in 435 BC. Became the first censor of the Roman Republic. The Consulate he held for the first time in the year 447 v. With Gaius Iulius Iullus . He exercised his second consulate in 443 BC. With Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus , and for the third time he was with Lucius Sergius Fidenas in 437 BC. Chr. Consul. In his second consulate in 443 BC In BC he defeated the Volscians under their king Cluilius, for which the Senate granted him a triumphal procession . He died after the year 431 BC. BC, the year in which it is mentioned again as a legacy .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Livy: ab urbe condita , Vol. 1, 30, 2
  2. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, (Reprinted unchanged 1968).
  3. ↑ Livius: ab urbe condita , Vol. 4, 9, ff
  4. ↑ Hans Georg Gundel : Geganius 2. In: Der Kleine Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 715.
personal data
SURNAME Geganius, Macerinus Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION multiple elected Roman consul (435 BC to 437 BC)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 431 BC Chr.