Marcus Petreius

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Marcus Petreius (* probably around 110 BC; † April 46 BC ) was a Roman politician and general.

For the first phase of Petreius' career, which probably led him to the Senate as the first of his family, the chronology is unclear. Sallust describes him as a military man who died in 62 BC. BC could look back on thirty years of military service as a military tribune , prefect and legate . In an unknown year (64 BC at the latest) he held the praetur .

Petreius served as a legacy in 63/62 BC. Under the consul Gaius Antonius Hybrida . He led the decisive victory over the revolutionary Lucius Sergius Catilina at Pistoria in early 62 BC. The command because Antonius could not take part in the fight because of a foot ailment. While Gaius Iulius Caesar's consulate in 59 BC He showed solidarity with Caesar's opponent Marcus Porcius Cato .

From 55 BC BC Petreius was next to Lucius Afranius one of the legates who administered the Spanish provinces for the nominal governor Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus . After the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC BC Petreius and Afranius faced Caesar, who wanted to secure Spain from the fight against Pompey. The two legates suffered a defeat after a few initial successes and had to surrender on August 2nd at Ilerda and dismiss their army. Petreius and Afranius went to see Pompey in Greece. After the battle of Pharsalus , Petreius fled with Cato from the Peloponnese to North Africa. Petreius also served there as a legate during the resistance of the Pompeians. Together with Titus Labienus , he was initially able to achieve success against Caesar. After the defeat of the Pompeians at Thapsus , Petreius fled together with the Numid king Iuba . When their situation became hopeless, they both died on an estate near Zama : Petreius killed Iuba in a pre-arranged duel and took his own life with the help of a slave.

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  1. ↑ Possibly the Primus Pilus Gnaeus Petreius Atinas, who lived in 102 BC. He saved a legion from destruction by the Cimbri and received the corona graminea for it ( Pliny , naturalis historia 22, 11), his father.
  2. ↑ Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 59, 6: Homo militaris, quod amplius annos triginta tribunus aut praefectus aut legatus aut praetor cum magna gloria in exercitu fuerat .
  3. ^ Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 59, 4-61.
  4. ^ Cassius Dio 38, 3, 2.
  5. ↑ Velleius Paterculus 2, 48, 1.
  6. ↑ Caesar, de bello civili 1, 38-87.
  7. ↑ Cassius Dio 43, 13, 3.
  8. ^ Appian , Civil Wars 2.95.
  9. ^ [Caesar], de bello Africo 91, 1.
  10. ↑ [Caesar], de bello Africo 94; Appian, Civil Wars 2, 100; Seneca , de providentia 2, 10.
personal data
SURNAME Petreius, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and general
DATE OF BIRTH around 110 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH April 46 BC Chr.