Quintus Sulpicius Longus

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Quintus Sulpicius Longus came from the Roman patrician family of the Sulpicians and was 390 BC. One of a total of six consular tribunes . According to Roman tradition, Rome was conquered by the Gauls led by Brennus during his tenure .

Life

The full name of Quintus Sulpicius Longus is given in only one place in the history of Titus Livius . Otherwise his cognomen is only mentioned in a late antique fasting list going back to the Fasti Capitolini and in all other sources only his first and gentile name is mentioned. According to a vague assumption by the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer , Sulpicius could be the son of Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Praetextatus , the consul or consular tribune from 434 BC. BC, have been.

When the Gauls advanced on Rome under Brennus (390 or perhaps 387 BC), Sulpicius was said to be a war victim before the defeat of the Romans in the Battle of the Allia, according to ancient priestly tradition, reproduced by the annalists Gnaeus Gellius and Lucius Cassius Hemina and this was the occasion for the introduction of the unlucky days indicative of this postriduani .

In the Roman tradition it is further stated that Sulpicius was subsequently the commander of the castle on the Capitol during the Gallic siege and negotiated with Brennus about the price for the departure of the Gauls.

Presumably the three-time consul Gaius Sulpicius Longus was a grandson of Quintus Sulpicius Longus treated here.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Livy 5:36 , 12.
  2. ↑ Quotation of all important sources in Friedrich Münzer : Sulpicius 76). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 814.
  3. ↑ a b Friedrich Münzer: Sulpicius 76). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 815.
  4. ^ Gnaeus Gellius and Cassius Hemina in Macrobius , Saturnalia 1, 16, 22; then Verrius Flaccus (in Aulus Gellius , Noctes Atticae 5, 17, 2) and Livius 6, 1, 12.
  5. ↑ Livy 5, 47, 8f.
  6. ↑ Livy 5, 48, 8f .; Plutarch , Camillus 28, 4f .; Zonaras 7, 23.
personal data
SURNAME Sulpicius longus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Longus, Quintus Sulpicius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consular tribune 390 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.