Tiberius Minucius Augurinus

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Tiberius Minucius Augurinus († probably 305 BC) was a member of the Roman lineage of the Minucians and 305 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Only known of the career of Tiberius Minucius Augurinus that he was in 305 BC. BC the consulate held together with Lucius Postumius Megellus . The historians Titus Livius and Diodorus reporting on it only give the prenomen and the gentile name of Minucius; and since only the beginning of Minucius' name has survived from the Fasti Capitolini , his cognomen Augurinus can only be taken from a late antique fasting list, the chronograph. He is the ancestor of the plebeian branch of the Minucians and their first representative, who held the highest Roman state office.

Both consuls fought in 305 BC. In the last phase of the Second Samnite War against the Samnites , but the shorter report by Diodorus and the longer one by Livy differ from one another. Furthermore, in his description of the campaign of 305 BC, Livy used Two sources, which also differed in several points. According to Diodorus, the Romans defeated the Paeligners first . The Samnites invaded the Ager Falernus in northern Campania , whereupon the consuls - who always fought together with Diodorus - marched against them. In a first field battle, the consuls were successful and captured more than 2000 enemy fighters. Then they succeeded in conquering a city ​​named by Diodor Bola (which name can probably be improved in Bovianum ). When the Samnite leader Gellius Gaius (who can probably be identified with the Statius Gellius named by Livius ) appeared with 6000 soldiers, he lost to the consuls and fell into the hands of the Romans. The end of the campaign was the Roman reconquest of three federal cities, including Sora .

According to Livy, the Samnites did not attack the Falernergau, but the neighboring Ager Stellas. Thereupon both consuls advanced against Samnium , but they parted according to the Livian representation, with Minucius against Bovianum and Postumius against Tifernum . The latter either won a great victory or gave the Samnites just a tie battle. Then both consuls reunited their troops, won a second battle brilliantly against their enemies and took the Samnite general Statius Gellius and many other war opponents prisoner. One source used by Livy stated that both consuls stormed Bovianum shortly afterwards and celebrated a triumph together. On the other hand, the other Livian source reported that Minucius was seriously injured in the battle and died in the camp, as well as that the subsequently elected suffect consul Marcus Fulvius conquered Curvus Paetinus Bovianum. According to the Fasti Capitolini , too , Fulvius became a suffect consul in place of Minucius, and the Triumphal Acts record a triumph of Fulvius over the Samnites. These last two sources thus agree with Livius 'side report of Minucius' death after the battle of Bovianum.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Livy 9:44, 3; Diodorus 20, 81, 1.
  2. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Gellius 11). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 1000.
  3. ↑ Diodorus 20, 90, 3f.
  4. ^ Livy 9:44, 5-16.
personal data
SURNAME Minucius Augurinus, Tiberius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Augurinus, Tiberius Minucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 305 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 305 BC Chr.