Quintus Minucius Rufus

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Quintus Minucius Rufus was a member of the Roman plebeian dynasty of the Minucier and in 197 BC. Chr. Consul .

Lineage and Early Career

According to the testimony of the Fasti Capitolini , both the father and the grandfather of Quintus Minucius Rufus carried the prenomen Gaius .

Quintus Minucius Rufus could be identical with that Roman, referred to only as Quintus Minucius by the Roman historian Titus Livius , who was killed in the Second Punic War against Hannibal 212–211 BC. Served as legate of Appius Claudius Pulcher during the fighting for Capua and 210 BC. Took part in the senate deliberations on the further lot of the now conquered city.

201 BC Minucius held the office of a plebeian aedile and organized magnificent games in this function. The next station of his cursus honorum was the praetur , which he gave in 200 BC. Exercised. He managed property located in southern Italy Bruttium . He conducted an investigation into a case of robberies that took place in a Proserpine shrine in Lokroi . He was also investigating an uncovered conspiracy. Since these investigations had not yet come to an end during his tenure as praetor, he was given permission to carry out them the next year, 199 BC To complete as a propaetor. At that time, negative omina should also have appeared in Bruttium and Minucius reported two cases of freak births, including a double with five legs.

consulate

197 BC BC Quintus Minucius Rufus rose to consul, where he had Gaius Cornelius Cethegus as a colleague. The task of both consuls was to fight different tribes in northern Italy. They coordinated their campaigns with one another. From Genoa Minucius invaded Liguria , defeated the inhabitants of this region with the exception of the Ilvates , then crossed the Apennines and devastated the territory of the Boier . The military contingent of this people had previously crossed the Po to support the Insubri and Cenomaniac in their fight against the other consul Cethegus. Because of Minucius' incursion into the Boier territory, their aid contingents sent against Cethegus returned to their homeland to defend them against Minucius. Meanwhile, Cethegus won a major, very bloody victory over the Insubrians and Cenomanians, whereupon Minucius had no major battle in the land of the Boier. Likewise, the Ilvates were now willing to make peace.

After the conclusion of their campaigns, both consuls arrived in Rome at the same time and convened the Senate in the Temple of Bellona . Together they demanded a triumph for their military accomplishments, but two tribunes resisted this demand and insisted that the consuls submit their requests for triumph separately. A two-day dispute followed, in which the tribunes prevailed. Cethegus received the triumph unanimously approved, while Minucius was denied this high honor because he had achieved little success and suffered high losses. Minucius celebrated at his own expense his own triumph over Ligurians and Boier on the Albanerberg , which was also recorded in the Fasti . It is controversial whether this victory celebration corresponds to an Ovatio or a higher honor.

Next life

After the Romans the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III. had defeated, Quintus Minucius Rufus was 189 BC. The senior leader of the ten senators who were sent to Asia Minor to rearrange the situation there. His fellow gentile, Quintus Minucius Thermus , was also a member of this commission of ten. In the Senate resolution that has been received, which deals with the bacchanalia scandal of the year 186 BC , which Livius dealt with in detail Concerned, Minucius is listed in third place as a documentary witness.

183 BC Minucius was probably a member of a consul from 196 BC. Chr., Lucius Furius Purpureo , led tripartite embassy who traveled to the transalpine Celts that invaded northern Italy . His identification with the Quintus Minucius who lived in 174 BC is very uncertain . BC sailed to Crete with a fleet of ten ships to help settle internal disputes there. Minucius' year of death is unknown.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Livy 26:33 , 5; on this Friedrich Münzer : Minucius 22). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XV, 2, Stuttgart 1932, Sp. 1943.
  2. ↑ Livy 31: 4, 4; 31, 4, 7; 31, 6, 2.
  3. ↑ Livy 31, 12, 1-3 and 31, 13, 1.
  4. ↑ Livy 32, 1, 7f. and 32, 1, 11.
  5. ↑ Fasti Capitolini; Livy 32, 27, 5 and 32, 28, 1; Cicero , Brutus 73; among others
  6. ↑ Livy 32:28 , 3-9; see. Polybios 18, 11, 2 and 18, 12, 1.
  7. ↑ Livy 32, 29, 5-8.
  8. ↑ Livy 32:31 , 1-6; Zonaras 9, 16.
  9. ↑ Livy 33, 22f .; Triumphal Acts.
  10. ↑ Livy 37, 55, 7.
  11. ↑ CIL I² 581  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oracle-vm.ku-eichstaett.de  
  12. ↑ Livius 39, 54, 13 (who calls one of the three ambassadors Quintus Minucius , without naming a cognomen).
  13. ↑ Livy 41:25, 7.
personal data
SURNAME Minucius Rufus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rufus, Quintus Minucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 197 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 186 BC Chr.