Servius Sulpicius Galba (Praetor 187 BC)

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Servius Sulpicius Galba came from the Roman patrician family of the Sulpicians and was 187 BC. BC City Praetor . Later he tried several times in vain for the consulate .

Life

According to the assumption of the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer, Servius Sulpicius Galba could have been either a son of the pontiff of the same name or of the two-time consul Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus .

The first known office of Galba's cursus honorum is his curular aedility , which he gave in 189 BC. Clad. Together with his colleague Publius Claudius Pulcher , he imposed fines for excessive grain prices and donated twelve gold-plated shields for a temple of Hercules with the funds he received . Two years later, 187 BC. BC, he officiated as Praetor urbanus . In this capacity, instead of the absent consuls, he presided over several meetings of the Senate . He also supported Marcus Fulvius Nobilior's call for a triumph .

In the following years Galba applied for the highest office in the state four times without success. He made a first attempt at this in the elections for the consulate for 185 BC. BC, but lost out to a competitor, Appius Claudius Pulcher . In the candidacy for the consulate of the next year 184 BC Galba's former colleague in the aedility, Publius Claudius Pulcher, was more successful because he was supported by his brother, the previous consul Appius Claudius Pulcher. Finally, Galba also had to go to the elections for 183 and 182 BC. Behind Quintus Fabius Labeo or Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus . His efforts to become consul had thus failed.

Galba expected from the speaker Cicero as Servius Galba titulierten friend and neighbor of the Roman poet Ennius be identical.

A son of Galba was probably the consul of the same name from 144 BC. BC, who was able to embark on a more successful career than his father.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Friedrich Münzer: Sulpicius 57). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 759.
  2. ↑ Titus Livius 38, 35, 5.
  3. ↑ Livius 38:42, 6; 38, 44, 9; 38, 54, 4; 39, 5, 6.
  4. ↑ Livy 39, 32, 6f.
  5. ↑ Cicero, Lucullus sive Academicorum priorum libri 2, 51, on this Friedrich Münzer: Sulpicius 57). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 759.
personal data
SURNAME Sulpicius Galba, Servius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galba, Servius Sulpicius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman city praetor 187 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.