Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus

Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus came from the Roman patrician family of the Sulpicians and was probably 377 BC. Chr. Konsulartribun , a post he also 376, 370 and 368 v. Exercised.

Life

The Fasti Capitolini are likely Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus as consular tribune from 377 BC. And gave him three further terms of office 376, 370 and 368 BC. Because in the last two years fragments of the Fasti Capitolini have been preserved, which speak of a third and fourth term of office of this Sulpicius. The Roman annalist Titus Livius names the consular tribunes from 377 BC. BC only with first name and family name (Servius Sulpicius) , also in the other periods of office assigned to him; the same is true of the Greco-Sicilian historian Diodorus . In contrast, two other historians (fragmentarily preserved), Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Cassius Dio , refer to Sulpicius' cognomen as Rufus , from which it is sometimes concluded - albeit extremely uncertainly - that the consular tribune of 377 BC. To be equated with Servius Sulpicius Rufus . There is also the possibility that the consular tribune from 377 BC With that in the years 376, 370 and 368 BC The incumbent is identical and two Cognomina, Praetextatus and Rufus , led, whereby the former would not have been mentioned by Dionysius and Cassius Dio.

In the consular tribunate of 377 BC At the head of a Roman army, Sulpicius and his colleague Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus hurried to the aid of the inhabitants of Tusculum , who had holed up in the adjacent citadel after their city had been conquered by the Latins . The Latins, trapped in Tusculum by the Romans, were attacked from the citadel at the same time and finally wiped out.

Also in the year 377 BC. BC Livy relocates the family quarrel that is said to have been the reason for the Leges Liciniae Sextiae , which the tribunes Gaius Licinius Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus stubbornly enforced . These laws also enabled plebeians to become consuls. According to the Livian account, Marcus Fabius Ambustus , a patrician , had two daughters named Fabia, whose older was the wife of the patrician Sulpicius and the younger was the wife of the plebeian Licinius Stolo. When the elder Fabia was talking to her younger sister in her husband's house, Sulpicius's return was announced by the lictor striking the door of the house. The younger Fabia, who did not know this custom, was shocked and was laughed at by her older sister for it. She was offended and regretted that as a born patrician she had suffered a loss of prestige due to her marriage to a plebeian. She complained to her father, who was now working with his son-in-law Licinius Stolo and Sextius Lateranus to get the plebeians admitted to the consulate.

literature

• Friedrich Münzer : Sulpicius 88). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 821.

Remarks

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. Reprint 1968 (Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1); for 377 s. P. 107f, for 376 p. P. 108f, for 370 p. P. 110f, for 368 p. Pp. 111-113
2. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 370 BC Chr .: [Praet] ext. III ; ad annum 368 BC Chr .: [Praet] extat. IIII .
3. ↑ 377 BC Chr .: Titus Livius 6, 32, 3 u. ö .; Diodorus 15, 61, 1. - 376 BC Chr .: Diodorus 15, 71, 1; not mentioned by Livy. - 370 BC Chr .: Livy 6, 36, 3; Diodorus 15, 76, 1. - 368 BC Chr .: Livy 6:38, 2; Diodorus 15, 78, 1.
4. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus 14, 7; Cassius Dio, fragment 29, 1 and in Zonaras 7, 24.
5. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Sulpicius 94). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 850 f.
6. ^ Livy 6, 33, 6-12.
7. ↑ Livy 6:34, 5-10; Dionysios 14, 7; Cassius Dio, fragment 29, 1; Zonaras 7, 24; among others