Popillier
The Popillier were a plebeian family who lived from the 4th century BC. Until the end of the Roman Republic he provided consuls several times .
The name of the Popillii (or Popilii) probably comes from the Oscar . In the middle of the 4th century BC A member of this gens managed to get to the consulate, which he was able to hold five times in a row. This progenitor of all later Popilliers is said to have already worn the Cognomen Laenas. According to Cicero , while Laenas was sacrificing, there was a revolt of the plebs ; still wrapped in the woolen cloak of a flamen carmentalis , the so-called laena , he appeared before the people and was able to calm the minds with a speech. This is how he got this nickname.
Despite this outstanding personality, it did not last until the early 2nd century BC. Until Popillier could reach the consulate again. With the end of the republic, the Popillii also disappeared from history.
Consuls from the gens Popillia
- Marcus Popillius Laenas (Consul 359 BC) , Consul 359, 356, 354, 350 and 348 BC Chr.
- Marcus Popillius Laenas (Consul 316 BC) , Consul 316 BC Chr.
- Marcus Popillius Laenas (Consul 173 BC) , Consul 173 BC BC , censor 159 BC Chr.
- Gaius Popillius Laenas , Consul 172 and 158 BC Chr.
- Gaius Popilius Carus Pedo , Roman consul 147
- Marcus Popillius Laenas (Consul 139 BC) , Consul 139 BC Chr.
- Publius Popillius Laenas , Consul 132 BC Chr.
such as
- Titus Popilius Albinus , Roman officer (imperial era)
Individual evidence
- ↑ For a complete list of the members of the gens Popilia who held offices during the Roman Republic, see T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 2: 99 BC - 31 BC (= Philological Monographs. 15, 2). American Philological Association, New York NY 1952, pp. 605 f., (Reprinted by Press of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 1968).
- ↑ Cicero, Brutus 56,364.