Publius Aelius Paetus (Consul 201 BC)

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Publius Aelius Paetus ( Cognomen also Paitus ; † 174 BC ) was a politician of the Roman Republic belonging to the plebeian dynasty of the Aelians . He officiated in 201 BC. As consul and 199 BC. As censor .

Life

According to the filiation information of the Fasti Capitolini , the father of Publius Aelius Paetus used the prenomen Quintus , while his grandfather also used the prenomen Publius . He should be a son of 216 BC. Pontifex Quintus Aelius Paetus and the elder brother of the consul from 198 BC, who fell in the battle of Cannae . BC, Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus .

Since 208 BC Publius Aelius Paetus exercised the priesthood of augur . 204 BC He held the post of a plebeian aedile . 203 BC He acted as Praetor urbanus . The next year 202 BC He was the master equitum of the dictator to lead the elections, Gaius Servilius Geminus .

Publius Aelius Paetus reached the climax of his cursus honorum in 201 BC. With the clothing of the consulate, where he had Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus as an official colleague. He was assigned the province of Gallia cisalpina , but did not achieve any significant success against the rebellious Boier . After all, he signed a contract with the Ligurian tribe of the Ingauni . When he returned to Rome , he headed the comitia .

From 201 to 200 BC Publius Aelius Paetus was a member of a ten-man commission whose task it was to distribute land in Apulia and Samnium to the veterans of the Hannibal conqueror Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus , who had fought in North Africa . 199 BC He formed with his brother Sextus and his former consulate colleague Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus the body of those Tresviri , who were entrusted with the settlement of colonists in Narnia . Delegates from this colony had complained that there were not enough settlers and that certain people who were not colonists were posing as such. In the same year Paetus exercised the censorship together with Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus. Around 195 BC He was one of the ten legates who were supposed to prepare peace with the Macedonian king Philip V. 193-192 BC He was one of the ambassadors to the Seleucid king Antiochus III.

174 BC Publius Aelius Paetus, who was also one of the oldest known lawyers , died of the plague . His son Quintus Aelius Paetus reached 167 BC. The consulate.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 202 BC. Chr .: [Ai] lius Q. f. P. n. Paitus .
  2. ↑ Elimar Klebs : Aelius 101). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 526.
  3. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 27, 36, 5 (with the false name Publius Aquillius Paetus ; correct spelling 41, 21, 8).
  4. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 29, 38, 4.
  5. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 30, 1, 9 and 30, 17, 3.
  6. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 202 BC. Chr .; Livy, Ab urbe condita 30, 39, 4.
  7. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 201 BC. Chr .; Livy, Ab urbe condita 30, 40, 5 and 30, 44, 2; Pliny , Naturalis historia 18, 166; among others
  8. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 31, 2-4.
  9. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 31, 4, 3.
  10. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 32, 2, 7.
  11. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 199 BC Chr .; Livy, Ab urbe condita 32, 7, 1-3.
  12. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 34, 59, 8.
  13. ^ Sextus Pomponius , Digesta 1, 2, 2, 38.
  14. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 41, 21, 8.
personal data
SURNAME Aelius Paetus, Publius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paetus, Publius Aelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 201 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 174 BC Chr.