Quintus Caedicius

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Quintus Caedicius († 256 BC ) was a Roman politician during the First Punic War .

He was believed to be the son of the consul of 289, Quintus Caedicius Noctua . Perhaps he is identical with the military tribune Quintus Caedicius , who, according to Cato 258 in Sicily, saved the army of the consul Aulus Atilius Caiatinus by a ruse from the greatest danger. Caedicius was elected consul with Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus in 256 , but died soon afterwards. Marcus Atilius Regulus became a suffect consul in his place . With his death the gens Caedicia disappeared into insignificance.

literature

  • T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, p. 208, (Reprinted unchanged 1968).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cato FRH 3 F4,7a (= The early Roman historians I, ed., Transl. And com. By Hans Beck and Uwe Walter . Darmstadt 2001).
  2. ↑ His name is used by most sources, e.g. B. Livius , given as (M.) Calpurnius (Flamma) , but Adolf Lippold shows : Consules. Studies on the history of the Roman consulate from 264 to 201 BC Chr. (= Antiquitas . Row 1: Treatises on ancient history. 8). Habelt, Bonn 1963, p. 28 note 125, and P. 52 note 236, convincing that this is later an annalistic forgery and that the Catos version is to be preferred.
personal data
SURNAME Caedicius, Quintus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 256 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 256 BC Chr.