Spurius Carvilius Maximus Ruga

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Spurius Carvilius Maximus Ruga († 211 BC ) came from the Roman plebeian dynasty of the Carvilians and was 234 and 228 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Spurius Carvilius Maximus Ruga, whose father used the same prenomen Spurius while his grandfather had the first name Gaius , might be too young for a son of the two-time consul and censor Spurius Carvilius Maximus . He reached 234 BC BC for the first time the consulate together with Lucius Postumius Albinus . At first he continued the war against the Corsicans and then fought victoriously against the Sardinians , over which victory he was able to hold a triumph .

235 or 231 BC Carvilius divorced because his wife had no children. This is the first known case of a divorce in Rome. 228 BC He became consul for the second time and received Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus as his official colleague. The fact that the latter strongly opposed a bill on the distribution of arable land by the tribune's tribune Gaius Flaminius , while Carvilius behaved neutrally, should not be true due to Cicero's probably wrong approach , since Flaminius, according to the reliable Greek historian Polybios , had this arable law as early as 232 BC. Had brought in.

Carvilius is only mentioned again in the third year of the Second Punic War , when, after the devastating defeat of the Romans against Hannibal in the Battle of Cannae (216 BC), he took the view that the thinned ranks of senators were to be admitted To fill up Latins , also to bind them more closely to Rome. Two senators should therefore be elected from each Latin tribe. With this suggestion, however, he met with decisive rejection. He was also an augur . The year of his death is 211 BC. Chr. Handed down.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Carvilius 10). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 1630.
  2. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 234 BC Chr .; Cassiodorus , Chronicle ; among others
  3. ↑ Triumphal Acts; Zonaras 8, 18.
  4. ↑ Aulus Gellius , Noctes Atticae 4, 3, 2 and 17, 21, 44; Valerius Maximus 2, 1, 4; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 2, 25, 7; Plutarch , comparison of Theseus and Romulus 6, 6; Comparison of Lykurg and Numa 3, 11.
  5. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 228 BC Chr .; Cassiodorus, Chronicle ; among others
  6. ↑ Cicero , Cato maior de senectute 11.
  7. ↑ Polybios 2, 21, 7.
  8. ↑ Titus Livius 23, 22, 4ff.
  9. ^ Livy 26:23 , 7.
personal data
SURNAME Carvilius Maximus Ruga, Spurius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maximus Ruga, Spurius Carvilius; Ruga, Spurius Carvilius Maximus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 234 and 228 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 211 BC Chr.