Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

IUNI1980 L. Iunius (58) L. f. Gal. Brutus Damasippus

Life Dates

  • 82, proscribed (Hinard 1985) Expand

    Hinard 82 no. 36

  • Before 80, death - violent (Hinard 1985) Expand

    Executed.

Relationships

father of
? P. Licinius (65, 75) Crassus Iunianus Damasippus = P.? Iunius Brutus Damasippus (pr.? 51) (Zmeskal 2009)
? -. Iunius (72) Damasippus (son of? L. Iunius (58) L. f. Gal. Brutus Damasippus (pr. 82)) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 89 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 23 Ibid. 141f. The known course of Damasippus' career permits us to identify him with this man, who was probably of quaestorian or tribunician rank in 89. (Broughton MRR II)
    • ILS 8888, listed in fifth place on Pompeius Strabo's staff. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 83 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • A leader of the Marians against Pompey (Plut. Pomp. 7.1-2; cf. Diod. 38.9). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor 82 urbanus, quo senatus censuisset (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 3 On the identification of Damasippus, see RE, and Ps.-Acro and Comm. Cruq. on Horace, Sat. 2.3.16ff. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Liv. Per. 86; Vell. 2.26.2; Val. Max. 9.2.3; App. BC 1.88; Oros. 5.20.4. At the bidding of the Consul Marius, he executed Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex Maximus, Carbo Arvina, L. Domitius, P. Antistius, and other opposing leaders (Cic. Fam. 9.21.2; Rosc. Amer. 90; Sall. Cat. 51.32 and 34; Hist. 1.77.7M; Liv. Per. 86; Vell. 2.26.2; Val. Max. 9.2.3; Plut. Pomp. 9.2-3; App. BC 1.88; Oros. 5.20.4; on Scaevola, see Pontifices). He joined Papirius Carbo in Etruria, aided attempts to relieve Marius in Praeneste, and was killed at Sulla's command after the battle at the Colline Gate (Sall. Cat. 51; App. BC 1.92, cf. 95; Dio 30-35, fr. 109.4). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. 82. See MRR 2.67. Appian's phrase, # (BC 1.88), as T. J. Luce has[112x] shown, does not mean pr. urbanus, but only praetor in or of the city (CPh 56, 1961, 21-28, esp. 22-23). Delete the word urbanus. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 748, footnote 297 (Brennan 2000)