Marcus Junius Brutus (Consul 178 BC)

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Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman consul in 178 BC. Chr.

origin

Marcus Iunius Brutus claimed for himself and all members of the Gens Iunia with the cognomen Brutus, e.g. B. the consul of the year 138 BC BC, Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus , a descent from the rather legendary founder of the Roman Republic, Lucius Junius Brutus . Such an ancestry is unlikely , even if the founding history of the republic were based on facts, because this first consul was a patrician after the abolition of the monarchy , but the later Iunii Bruti, like Marcus Iunius Brutus, were all plebeians . Nevertheless, the plebeian Junier with the surname Brutus was an old senatorial family who first came to fasting in 339 BC. BC with the Magister equitum Decimus Iunius Brutus Scaeva appears and the with the same Decimus Iunius Brutus Scaeva 325 BC. For the first time a consul of the republic.

Political career

Marcus Iunius Brutus, son of a Marcus Iunius, grandson of a Lucius Iunius, first appeared on the political scene in Rome in 195 BC. BC, when he tried in vain as a tribune of the people together with his relative and fellow tribune Publius Junius Brutus and the incumbent consul Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder to prevent the repeal of the lex oppia sumptuaria operated by two other tribunes . He was probably 193 BC. BC, plebeian aedile and built with his colleague in office, Lucius Oppius Salinator, the so-called Tabernae plebeiae on the north side of the Roman Forum , which were soon demolished for the new building of the Basilica Porcia Catos. With Oppius he became praetor in 191 . He dedicated the temple to the Mother of Gods on the Palatine Hill with festivals at which Plautus ' play Pseudolus was performed.

189 BC In BC Marcus Iunius Brutus became a member of a commission of ten to regulate affairs of Asia Minor . After such a long successful work in the civil service, he was appointed for the year 178 BC. Elected consul of the republic together with Aulus Manlius Vulso . He was sent by the Senate to fight the Ligurians , while his colleague in office took over the campaign against the Histrians . Because of the difficulties that Manlius Vulso had with the Histri, he was sent to help him. Both consuls wintered in Aquileia , their command was extended, so that they continued the campaign against the Histrians as proconsuls in the next spring . They advanced victoriously, but were then replaced by the new consul Gaius Claudius Pulcher . In 169, Marcus Junius Brutus applied unsuccessfully for the office of censor . But then he belonged, together with two other consulars , to an embassy to Asia Minor in order to recruit allies there against Perseus , the king of Macedonia . Eventually he was born in 164 BC. Leader of a Roman embassy to Asia Minor to settle the disputes between Ariarathes IV Eusebes , king of Cappadocia , and the Galatians .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingemar König : The Roman State. Volume 1: The Republic (= Reclam's Universal Library . 8834). Reclam, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-15-008834-8 , p. 206.
  2. ↑ Ingemar König: The Roman State. Volume 1: The Republic (= Reclam's Universal Library. 8834). Reclam, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-15-008834-8 , p. 208.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : M. Junius Brutus . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Col. 970.
  4. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab Urbe condita 35, 24, 6.
  5. ↑ Livy, Ab Urbe condita 36, 36, 4.
  6. ↑ Polybios 31, 13, 1-3.
personal data
SURNAME Junius Brutus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brutus, Marcus Junius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul in 178 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 164 BC Chr.