Titus Quinctius Flamininus (Consul 150 BC)

Titus Quinctius Flamininus (* around 193 BC) was a Roman politician and senator in the middle of the 2nd century BC. In 150 BC. BC he officiated as an ordinary consul .

Life

He belonged to the branch of the Quinctii Flaminini of the patrician gens of the Quinctier . It is commonly assumed that he was a son of the consul of the same name from 198 BC. Chr. Was; however, his brother Lucius Quinctius Flamininus (consul in 192 BC) could also have been his father.

In 167 BC BC. He was a member of a three-member delegation of the Senate , which freed Rome odrysische hostages , among them Bithys, a son of King odrysischen Kotys IV. , On their way home to Thrace accompanied. In the same year he was raised as the successor to the late Gaius Claudius Pulcher to Augur .

Through his consulate, which he established together with Manius Acilius Balbus in 150 BC. Chr. Practiced, there is hardly any information due to the sparse sources. The earlier stations of his course honorum cannot be dated either. Friedrich Münzer speculates that Flamininus could have held the consulate suo anno , and therefore concludes that 193 BC. As year of birth and to 153 BC. As a conceivable year of his praetur . In addition, Münzer assumes a close political connection between Flamininus and the three-time consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus , although the sources are silent about this.

Since Flamininus is no longer mentioned in sources for the following years, for example the Third Punic War (149–146 BC), it is assumed that he died soon after his consulate.

His son of the same name served in 123 BC. Also as consul.

literature

Hans Georg Gundel : Quinctius 46. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen antiquity science (RE). Volume XXIV, Stuttgart 1963, column 1100.

Individual evidence

↑ Titus is the prenomen mentioned in almost all ancient sources. The only exception is Pliny the Elder , who gives Gaius as his first name. See Pliny, Naturalis historia 7, 121.
^ Friedrich Münzer : Roman aristocratic parties and noble families. JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1920, p. 120.
↑ Livy 45, 42, 11.
↑ Livy 45, 44, 3.
^ Münzer: Roman aristocratic parties . P. 120.

personal data
SURNAME	Quinctius Flamininus, Titus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Flamininus, Titus Quinctius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman consul 150 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH	around 193 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century BC Chr.

[1] Titus is the prenomen mentioned in almost all ancient sources. The only exception is Pliny the Elder , who gives Gaius as his first name. See Pliny, Naturalis historia 7, 121.

[2] Friedrich Münzer : Roman aristocratic parties and noble families. JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1920, p. 120.

[3] Livy 45, 42, 11.

[4] Livy 45, 44, 3.

[5] Münzer: Roman aristocratic parties . P. 120.