Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

MINU1062 Q. Minucius (22, 55) C. f. C. n. Rufus

Life Dates

  • 231?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin no. 141.

Relationships

father of
? Q. Minucius (24, cf. 23) Q. f. (pr. c. 164) (Brennan 2000)

Career

  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 211 Campania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Served under Ap. Claudius at Capua (Liv. 26.33.5). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Aedilis Plebis 201 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 31.4.7. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor 200 Bruttium (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Elections: Liv. 31.4.4 Provinces Liv. 31.6.2, and 8.7-9 (Broughton MRR I)
    • Investigated thefts from the temple of Proserpina at Locri (Liv. 31.12.1-5, and 13.1). (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 729, footnote 42 (Brennan 2000)
  • Propraetor 199 Bruttium (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • His command as Propraetor in Bruttium was prorogued so that he might complete his inquiry into the thefts and sacrilege at Locri (Liv. 32.1.7-8 and 11). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumphator 197 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph in Monte Albano de Galleis, Liguribusque. MRR I.332-3, Itgenshorst no. 167, Rich no. 166. (Rich 2014)
  • Consul 197 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Brut. 73; Liv. 32.27.5; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 48f., 121, 452f.; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Zon. 9.16. Cornelius and Mi{333}nucius were assigned Italy as their province (Polyb. 18.11.2, and 12.1; Liv. 32.28.8). The former campaigned against the Gauls and the latter against the Gauls and the Ligurians (Liv. 32.28-31; 33.22-23; cf. the Elogium of Cornelius, Degrassi, Bull. Com. 67 [1939] 5-10). Cornelius celebrated a triumph over the Insubres and the Cenomani (Liv. 33.23.1), Minucius an ovatio over the Boii and the Ligurians (Liv. 33.23.8; Act. Tr., Degrassi 78f., 552; and Elogium, above). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 189 Asia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Though Willems is compelled to admit that this embassy consists in any case of an unusual proportion of senior members of the Senate, he attempts to fit it to his regular pattern (Sénat 2.506) by claiming: 1. that Aemilius Paullus was not the famous member of the family (but see above, note 3); 2. that Lentulus was not the Pr. of 203 but another, the Cos. of 162 (who was too young and whose career, as Münzer has shown, RE no. 214, he has reported incorrectly, Sénat 1.347, no. 216); and 3. that Aelius Tubero was not the Pr. of 201 but someone otherwise unknown. Münzer suggests that Lentulus{365} is a mistake for Cethegus, Pr. 185 and Cos. 181, and since the two men are confused in Liv. 40.18.1 this remains a possibility. However it is unnecessary, for with the identification of Aemilius Paullus the commission is seen to consist of eight consulars or praetorians, and evidently may have consisted wholly of men of curule rank. Therefore in spite of the disarangement of the two final names it seems preferable to identify Lentulus with the Praetor of 203 and Tubero with the Praetor of 201. As we know the names of only three senatorial commissions of ten men during this period and possess the complete list of only this one, the basis for Willems' generalization regarding the pattern remains rather tenuous. (Broughton MRR I)
    • An embassy of ten members sent to assist Manlius Vulso in implementing the treaty with Antiochus and in completing the settlement of Asia Minor (Liv. 37.55.7; 38.38.1, and 40.1, and 44.9-47, and 54.6; cf. Polyb. 21.24.9, and 16.17; see 188, Legates). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 188 Asia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The ten Legates assisted Manlius in concluding the treaty with Antiochus and the settlement of Asia Minor, and returned with him (Polyb. 21.4-45; 22.5; Liv. 38.38-40, and 45-46). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 183 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to the Transalpine Gauls to warn them to keep their people out of northern Italy (Liv. 39.54.11-54.4). (Broughton MRR I)

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