Publius Licinius Crassus Dives (praetor 57 BC)

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Publius Licinius Crassus Dives (fl. 59–57 BC) was a Roman senator during the time of the First Triumvirate in the late Republic. He was the judge who examined in 59 BC the controversial affair of , who was supposedly involved in a conspiracy to assassinate the "triumvir" Pompey.[1][2] Broughton supposed, on basis of this, that Dives had been a plebeian aedile in the previous year.[3] Dives was a praetor in 57 BC, and, along with his other colleagues in office, supported the recall of the ex-consul Cicero from exile.[4] He appears to have squandered a substantial amount of his wealth, causing Cicero to comment, in 59 BC, that his surname Dives (Latin for 'rich') was no longer appropriate for him.[5][6] Valerius Maximus reported that Crassus went bankrupt and that the name "Dives" became a provocative taunt; this must have happened after his term as praetor.[7][8]

Crassus Dives must have been a grandson[9] or (more likely) great-grandson[10][11] of Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus, consul in 131 BC, whose "wisdom and eloquence" D. R. Shackleton Bailey contrasted with his descendant's "degenerate" behavior".[9] The later Crassus Dives was thus only a distant relation of the contemporary Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of the three so-called triumvirs. Publius Crassus Dives has also been tentatively identified as the adoptive father of , an opponent of Julius Caesar during the civil war. The adoption had taken place by 54 BC.[12]

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Citations[]

  1. ^ Shackleton Bailey 1965, pp. 267, 269, 271.
  2. ^ Marshall, p. 464.
  3. ^ Broughton, p. 184.
  4. ^ Münzer, col. 334.
  5. ^ Shackleton Bailey 1965, pp. 231, 379.
  6. ^ Marshall, pp. 463–464.
  7. ^ Shackleton Bailey 1965, p. 379.
  8. ^ Verboven, p. 208.
  9. ^ a b Shackleton Bailey 1995, p. 62.
  10. ^ Marshall, p. 466.
  11. ^ Verboven, p. 206.
  12. ^ Verboven, pp. 197, 206, 208.

References[]

  • Broughton, T. Robert S. (1952). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic Volume II: 99 B.C.–31 B.C. New York: American Philological Association.
  • Münzer, Friedrich, "Licinius 71", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE, PW), volume XIII.1, column 334 (Stuttgart, 1926).
  • Marshall, Bruce A. (1973). "Crassus and the Cognomen Dives". Historia. 22 (3): 459–467. JSTOR 4435357.
  • Shackleton Bailey, D.R., ed. (1965). Cicero's Letters to Atticus volume I (books I–II). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-04643-2.
  • Shackleton Bailey, D.R. (1995). Onomasticon to Cicero's Letters. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner. doi:10.1515/9783110967555. ISBN 3-598-77426-5.
  • Verboven, Koenraad (1997). "Damasippus, the Story of a Businessman?". In Carl Deroux (ed.). Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History VIII. Collection Latomus. Vol. 239. Brussels. pp. 195–217. ISBN 2-87031-179-6.
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