Quintus Aelius Tubero (Consul 11 ​​BC)

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Quintus Aelius Tubero was a Roman senator who lived in the 1st century BC. Lived. His exact dates of birth and death are not known, he was probably born around the middle of the century.

He was the son of the jurist and historian of the same name, Quintus Aelius Tubero , who supported Caesar in 46 BC. BC led the charge of high treason ( perduellio ) against Quintus Ligarius and failed because of Cicero , who had taken over the defense.

During the Augustus in 17 BC Chr., Held secular celebration is the descendant of the aforementioned legal scholars as Quindecimvir sacris faciundis testified and was therefore a member of one of the four highest Roman priestly colleges .

In the year 11 BC He officiated together with his colleague Paullus Fabius Maximus as ordinary consul .

During his term of office, extensive construction projects and legal reforms regarding the inner and outer urban water supply fell . Together with his colleague, he was entrusted with the structural condition and inventory of the public pipes and wells. In addition, the consuls initiated a review of the consumer points for unauthorized, excessive water withdrawals. These surveys were used as the basis for the decision-making process ( senatus consulta ) .

His mother Sulpicia was the daughter of the eminent lawyer Servius Sulpicius Rufus , his sister was the mother of the consuls of the year 30, Gaius and Lucius Cassius Longinus . The consul of AD 4, Sextus Aelius Catus , may have been his brother.

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  1. Ronald Syme : The Augustan Aristocracy. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1986, ISBN 0-19-814859-3 , p. 307: approx. 44 v. Chr .; Jörg Rüpke : Fasti sacerdotum. Prosopography of the urban Roman priesthoods of Roman, Greek, Oriental and Judeo-Christian cults up to AD 499. Volume 2. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-07456-2 , p. 734 No. 489: middle of the 1st century v. Chr.
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