Quintus Marcius Rex (Consul 118 BC)

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Quintus Marcius Rex was a member of the ancient Roman plebeian dynasty of the Marcii Reges and 118 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

According to the testimony of the Triumphal Acts, the father and grandfather of Quintus Marcius Rex also carried the prenomen Quintus . No later than 121 BC BC Quintus Marcius Rex is likely to have held the praetur , before he became 118 BC. Together with Marcus Porcius Cato to the highest office of the state.

Today's Narbonne was founded as a Roman colony under the name Narbo Martius during Marcius' Rex tenure as consul . Marcius Rex suffered the death of his only, still young son, who was in his consulate year 118 BC. Chr. Passed away with such control that he presided over a Senate session on the same day that his son's funeral took place . He fought in the Alps the l igurischen tribe of Stoener and allowed for as proconsul v 117th Celebrate a triumph . Later he was probably accused in a court case, in which, however, his defense lawyer, the well-known speaker Mark Antony , grandfather of the triumvir of the same name , was able to obtain an acquittal for him.

Marcius Rex was the father of Marcia and therefore great-grandfather of Caesar . He was probably the brother of 114 BC. BC condemned Vestal Virgin Marcia .

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Remarks

  1. Velleius Paterculus 1, 15, 5; Eutropius 4, 23, 1.
  2. Valerius Maximus 5:10 , 3.
  3. Triumphal Acts; Livy , periochae 62; Orosius 5, 14, 5.
  4. ^ Cicero , de oratore 2, 125.
  5. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Marcius 114). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 2, Stuttgart 1930, column 1602.