Marcus Herennius (Consul 93 BC)

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Marcus Herennius was a late Republic Roman politician .

About 108 or 107 BC Was Herennius triumvir monetalis ( mint master ). At the latest in the year 96 BC. He must have held the office of praetor since he was 93 BC. Came to the consulate as the first member of his family ( homo novus ) . Herennius was able to prevail against Lucius Marcius Philippus , who only reached the consulate two years later. Marcus Tullius Cicero mentions Herennius as a mediocre speaker.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Michael Crawford : Roman republican coinage. Volume 1. Cambridge University Press, London et al. 1974, ISBN 0-521-07492-4 , pp. 317-318, ( limited preview in Google book search). Illustration from coins of Marcus Herennius.
  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, pp. 9 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).
  3. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, p. 14, (Unchanged reprint 1968): “A new man”. He cannot have been a son of Gaius Herennius (patron of Gaius Marius , cf. Plutarch , Marius 5, 4), since the praenomen of his father according to the Fasti Capitolini and the Fasti Antiates was "Marcus".
  4. ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero , Pro Murena 36 ; ders., Brutus 166 .
  5. ↑ Cicero, Brutus 166: eodem tempore M. Herennius in mediocribus oratoribus Latine et diligenter loquentibus numeratus est .
personal data
SURNAME Herennius, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, consul 93 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 135 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC Chr.