Quintus Minucius Esquilinus

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According to tradition, Quintus Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus (* around 495 BC; † after 457 BC) was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC. Chr.

Minucius belonged to the plebeian family of the Minucians . He was allegedly the son of the consul from 492 BC. BC, Publius Minucius Augurinus , and the brother of Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus , the suffect consul of the year 458 BC. Chr.

In 457 BC Minucius was elected consul together with Gaius Horatius Pulvillus and is said to have fought against the Aequer during his tenure . No further information is known about him.

The consulates of the Minucians are - according to the unanimous opinion within the scientific community - all to be removed from the consull lists, as they were later, probably around 300 BC. Were interpolated. In the early phase of the republic only patricians could get to the consular office, but the gens Minucia was clearly plebeian.

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  1. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unmodified 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), p. 41
  2. ↑ Compare the argumentation with Robert Werner : The beginning of the Roman republic. Historical-chronological studies of the early days of the libera res publica . Munich / Vienna: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1963, pp. 256-259
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SURNAME Minucius Esquilinus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esquilinus Augurinus, Quintus Minucius; Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus, Quintus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician of the Roman Republic, Consul 457 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH around 495 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 457 BC Chr.