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10 unusual facts about Roman consul


Argegno

Argegno is of Roman origin, and is named after the Roman consul Publio Cesio Archigene.

Battle of Silva Arsia

In 509 BC the Roman monarchy was overthrown, and the Roman Republic commenced with the election of the first consuls.

Fabius Dorsuo

Marcus Fabius Dorsuo, consul in 345 BC, possibly also interrex in 340 and in 334 one of the commissioners for establishing a colony (triumviri coloniae deducendae) at Cales.

Gaius Aquillius Florus

Gaius Aquillius Florus was a consul of the Roman Republic in the year 259 BC.

Gaius Iulius Iullus

Gaius Iulius Iullus or Gaius Iulius C.f. L.n. Iulus (fl. 5th century BC) was a Roman consul in 482 BC, son of Gaius Iulius Iullus (consul in 489 BC).

Heraclea Minoa

Again, in 256 BC, it was at Heraclea that the Carthaginian fleet of 350 ships was posted for the purpose of preventing the passage of the Roman fleet to Africa, and where it sustained a great defeat from the Roman consuls Regulus and Manlius.

Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi

They were descendants of the Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi who was consul in 133 BC and who established the addition of Frugi as an agnomen that was passed down through the family.

Lucius Valerius Flaccus

Six held consulships in the period from 261 BC to 86 BC; one also held a censorship.

Spurius Carvilius Maximus

, later surnamed Maximus, was the first member of the plebeian gens Carvilia to obtain the consulship, which he held in 293 BC, and again in 272 BC.

Spurius Carvilius Maximus Ruga

Spurius Carvilius Maximus Ruga (d. 212 BC) was Roman consul in 234 and 228 BC.


94

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calpurnius and Magius (or, less frequently, year 847 Ab urbe condita).

A Struggle for Rome

His father, Petronius Probinus, used to be Consul (Roman consul) in 489 and Patricius (Patrician) from 511 - 12.

Barba non facit philosophum

According to the Latin author Aulus Gellius, who relates he was present at the episode, a man in a cloak, "with long hair and a beard that reached almost to his waist" once came to the Athenian aristocrat, ex-Roman consul and man of letters Herodes Atticus, who was renowned for his "charm and his Grecian eloquence" and asked that money be given him εἰς ἄρτους ("for bread").

Battle of Mount Gaurus

The battle is described by the Roman historian Livy (59 BC – AD 17) as part of the Book Seven of his history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita where he narrates how the Roman consul Marcus Valerius Corvus won a hard-fought battle against the Samnites at Mount Gaurus, near Cumae, in Campania.

CivCity: Rome

The player is granted various ranks, progressing through such titles as: Quaestor, Aedile, Censor, Tribune, Praetor and Consul.

Decimus Laelius

Cicero's use of the word "respectable" (honestus) instead of "noble" (nobilis) to describe his family background suggests that he was not descended from the consular Laelii.

Flavius Euodius

Flavius Euodius (fl. 4th century) was a Roman politician and military officer, who was appointed consul in AD 386 alongside Honorius, the infant son of the emperor Theodosius I.

Gordian I

Christian Settipani gives as her parents Marcus Annius Severus, who was a Suffect Consul, and wife Silvana, born circa 140, daughter of Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus and wife Aurelia Fadilla, daughter of Antoninus Pius and wife Annia Galeria Faustina or Faustina the Elder.

Lucius Alienus

According to the Roman historian Livy, he accused Gaius Veturius Cicurinus, the consul of the previous year, of illegally selling the plunder which had been gained in war (instead of distributing it among the soldiery), and placing the amount in the Aerarium.

Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus

First Calvus used to be a Praetor, later a Consul and Governor of Hispania in 142 BC, where he fought, without success, against Viriathus, then he became a Proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul in 141 BC, and in 140 BC—139 BC he was a Legate.

Lucius Licinius Crassus

Licinius Crassus was married to Mucia, younger daughter of the Consul Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur by his wife Laelia, daughter of Gaius Laelius Sapiens.

Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus

He married Aurelia Fadilla (b. ca 120), daughter of Antoninus Pius and Annia Galeria Faustina or Faustina the Elder, and had a daughter Silvana (b. ca 120), who married Marcus Annius Severus, a Suffect Consul, and they would be the parents of Fabia Orestilla (ca 160 – bef. 238), wife of Gordian I.

Lucius Valerius Messalla Apollinaris

He apparently did not suffer any repercussions following the purge that saw his father put to death on the orders of the emperor Caracalla in AD 212, and in fact he was appointed consul prior in AD 214, alongside Gaius Octavius Appius Suetrius Sabinus.

Marcus Valerius Volusus

Marcus Valerius Volusus (or Volesus, sometimes referred to as M. Valerius Volusus Maximus) was a Roman consul with Publius Postumius Tubertus in 505 BC.

Milecastle 12

One reads "LEG·VI·V·P·F·REF·TER·ET·SAC·COS", referring to Tertullus and Sacerdos (Consuls for 158AD).

Puteal Scribonianum

A coin issued in 62 BC by Lucius Scribonius Libo (consul 34 BC) depicts this puteal, which he had renovated.