Quintus Marcius tremulus

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Quintus Marcius Tremulus was a Roman politician at the turn of the 4th to the 3rd century BC. Chr.

He belonged to a branch of the gens Marcia , which had no direct connection to the well-known Marcii Rutili of the 4th century BC. Owned. In 306 BC He reached the consulate together with Publius Cornelius Arvina . Both consuls were involved in the fighting in the final phase of the Second Samnite War. While Arvina had to do directly with the Samnites , Tremulus successfully fought against the hernics and their capital Anagnia . For his successes he received a triumph and an equestrian statue in front of the Castor temple in Rome, which Cicero could still see. In 288 BC He became consul again with Arvina.

Tremulus' son was believed to be Quintus Marcius Philippus , who adopted the cognomen Philip , which remained hereditary until the late Republic . Philip reached 281 BC The consulate. The year of death of the tremulus is unknown, but will be set soon after its second consulate.

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. 165 fu 185, (Unchanged reprint 1968).
  • Götz Lahusen : Investigations into the honor statue in Rome. Literary and epigraphic evidence (= Archaeologica. 35). Bretschneider, Rome 1983, ISBN 88-85007-97-X , pp. 19, 57 f.
  • The New Pauly , Vol. 7, Col. 862.
  • Markus Sehlmeyer : Roman statues of honor from the republican era. Historicity and context of symbols of nobility class consciousness (= Historia . Individual writings. 130). Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07479-1 , pp. 57-60.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Consular fasting : Q. Marcius Q. f. Q. n. Tremulus . The praenomen Quintus was in the Rutili not in use.
  2. ^ Livy , Roman History, Book 9:43.
  3. ↑ Cicero, Philippika , Speech 6:13.
personal data
SURNAME Marcius tremulus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tremulus, Quintus Marcius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 306 BC BC and 288 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.