Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Praetextatus

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Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Praetextatus came from the Roman patrician family of the Sulpicians and belonged to 434 BC. According to the majority of the preserved sources, to the highest magistrates of Rome, either as consul or as consular tribune .

Tradition does not agree whether 434 BC Two consuls or three consular tribunes acted as the highest state officials. The Greek-Sicilian historian Diodor leads three consular tribunes as the highest magistrates: Marcus Manlius , Quintus Sulpicius Praetextatus and Servius Cornelius Cossus . Mostly it is believed that Diodorus used one of the older Roman annalists for his portrayal of the early Roman republic, who are considered more reliable than the younger annalists. The Fasti Capitolini are for the year 434 BC. BC not preserved, but several fasting lists based on them. These show that the Fasti Capitolini mentioned the same three consular tribunes as Diodorus: Manlius Capitolinus , Sulpicius with the (probably first) epithet Camerinus and Cornelius Cossus . This gives their full names: Marcus Manlius Capitolinus , Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Praetextatus and Servius Cornelius Cossus .

The most detailed surviving report on the names of the magistrates from 434 BC. BC comes from the Roman historian Titus Livius , who also refers to the uncertain sources. He cites the information provided by three historians who can be assigned to younger annals. According to Gaius Licinius Macer , the consuls of the previous year, Gaius Iulius Iullus and Lucius (or Proculus) Verginius Tricostus, are said to have been re-elected to this office. On the other hand, according to the testimony of Valerius Antias and Quintus Aelius Tubero, two other men, Marcus Manlius and Quintus Sulpicius (without giving the cognomen), became consuls. So Licinius Macer named the names of two consuls who did not also appear in the above-mentioned consular tribunes, while this is very much the case with Valerius Antias and Aelius Tubero. Licinius Macer and Aelius Tubero both referred to the Libri lintei magistrate lists as their source , despite their different names . Both also admitted that older annalists mentioned consular tribunes as chief magistrates instead. While Licinius Macer gave the Libri lintei unconditional preference, Aelius Tubero was not so sure about this question. In view of the contradicting sources, Livy refrains from drawing any conclusion as to which tradition is the more correct.

The ancient historian Friedrich Münzer also raises the question of the composition and designation of the highest officials in 434 BC. Open. He suspects that in the era of the Roman Republic the senior civil servants' committees soon had two or three members and that the oldest fasts only gave a continuous list of names of the highest magistrates without official titles for a certain period of several years. This list had been divided up differently by later authors of Annals and Lenten to the individual years, with the option of assigning either two consuls or three consular tribunes to one year each.

Livy mentions that Sulpicius was born in 431 BC. As a legacy of the dictator Aulus Postumius Tubertus , I took part in the military confrontation of the Romans with the Aequers and Volscores .

Friedrich Münzer suspects that the consul from 393 BC BC, Servius Sulpicius Camerinus , who was the son of Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Praetextatus treated here.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ cf. see: T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprint 1968 (Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), pp. 61f.
  2. ↑ Diodorus 12, 53, 1.
  3. ↑ a b Friedrich Münzer : Sulpicius 37). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 748.
  4. ↑ Livy 4:23 , 1-3.
  5. ↑ Friedrich Münzer: Licinius 112). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIII, 1, Stuttgart 1926, Col. 424 f.
  6. ^ Livy 4:27 , 9.
  7. ^ Friedrich Münzer: Sulpicius 37). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, column 749.
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SURNAME Sulpicius Camerinus Praetextatus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camerinus Praetextatus, Quintus Sulpicius; Praetextatus, Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul or consular tribune 434 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 434 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 434 BC Chr.