Sextus Appuleius (Consul 29 BC)
Sextus Appuleius was a Roman senator in the 2nd half of the 1st century BC. And nephew of the emperor Augustus .
He was the son of a senator of the same name and Octavia Maior , the older half-sister of Augustus. Together with his uncle he dressed in 29 BC The ordinary consulate . Then Appuleius became governor ( proconsul ) of the province of Hispania citerior . For victorious fights there, about which nothing further is known, he received a triumph , which he won on January 25, 26 BC. Celebrated. Later, probably 23/22 BC. BC, he officiated as proconsul of the province of Asia , where he received cultic honors. According to Cassius Dio , he defended around 12 BC. BC together with Maecenas in court one of the accused of adultery. 8 v. Appuleius was governor ( Legatus Augusti pro praetore) of the province of Illyricum and apparently fought successfully against the Pannonians .
Appuleius held the ritual office of augur and was possibly also flamen Iulialis (priest for the deified Caesar ); as such he may be depicted on the Ara Pacis .
An inscription in Kyme shows that Sextus Appuleius was married to a Quinctilia, probably a sister of Publius Quinctilius Varus , and had a daughter named Appuleia Varilla with her. His younger brother, Marcus Appuleius, was an ordinary consul in 20 BC. His son Sextus in the year 14 AD
literature
- Wolfgang Will : Ap (p) uleius [II 3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 .
- Ronald Syme : The Augustan aristocracy. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1986, ISBN 0-19-814859-3 , pp. 316-318.
Remarks
- ↑ An inscription from Carthage ( CIL 8, 24583 ) is usually attributed to him. Afterwards he was quaestor , city praetor and flamen Iulialis (priest for the deified Caesar ). But the honor could also have gone to his son; see. John Pollini: Ahenobarbi, Appuleii and some others on the Ara Pacis. In: American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 90, No. 4, 1986, pp. 453-460, especially pp. 456-457, doi : 10.2307 / 506032 .
- ↑ CIL 9,422 . Cassius Dio 51, 20 ( English translation ).
- ^ Tanja Itgenshorst : Tota illa pompa. The triumph in the Roman Republic (= Hypomnemata. Investigations into antiquity and its afterlife . 161). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-25260-9 , catalog (on CD-ROM), No. 295, (also: Cologne, University, dissertation, 2003/2004).
- ↑ inscription on a statue honoring Kotiaion in Pergamon : inscriptions from Pergamon 2, 418 ( digitized ) = Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes 4, 402 = Wilhelm Dittenberger , Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae 461 . Inscription from Assos : Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes 4, 253 .
- ↑ Inscription probably from Alexandreia Troas : Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 37, 1007 .
- ^ Cassius Dio 54, 30 ( English translation ).
- ^ Cassiodor , Chronica ( digitized version ): Per Sextum Apuleium Pannonii subacti .
- ↑ CIL 9, 2637 .
- ^ John Pollini: Ahenobarbi, Appuleii and some others on the Ara Pacis. In: American Journal of Archeology. Vol. 90, No. 4, 1986, pp. 453-460, especially pp. 456-459, doi : 10.2307 / 506032 .
- ↑ Inscriptions from Kyme 18 . Compare Werner Eck : Quinctilius 30 a). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XIV, Stuttgart 1974, Sp.?.
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SURNAME | Appuleius, Sextus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 29 BC Chr. |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | after 8 BC Chr. |