PUBL1129 C. Publicius (15) Bibulus

Career

  • Aedilis Plebis? 195 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The inscription on his tomb is a late Republican restoration of an early epitaph recording his public burial (Frank CPh 19 [1924] 78), and thus it is possible to hold against Seidel (FA 80) and Niccolini (FTP 99f.) that he was either the Tr. Pl. of 209, the only C. Publicius on record (see CIL loc. cit., and ILS 862), or an unknown member of the family. Since the Aediles of the Plebs are known from 209 to 196 we assume either that like Fannius, Cos. 125, or Livius Drusus (Aed. 94) he held the aedileship before he was Tribune, or else that he did not hold it until 195 or 194. The latter seems the more probable alternative. On the other hand, Livy has preserved no notice of him, and the inscription would admit of a date a generation later, for which the text of Livy is lost, and an unknown C. Publicius Bibulus. See 209, Tribunes of the Plebs. (Broughton MRR I)
    • CIL .2.834. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Aed. pl. See MRR 1.340, and 342, note 1; cf. 286, 289, note 4. Degrassi (ILLRP 357) rejects the identification of this ledile with the tr. Pl. of 209 in favor of some otherwise unknown ledile of the age of Sulla, the period of the monument. He believes the person and the family were too unimportant to justify rebuilding the monument in a later period. C. (Publicius) Mall(eolus) (18). Monetalis. In MRR 2.450, and Index, 609, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.333- 336, no. 335, 96 B.C.? (with A. Albinus S. f. and L. Metel(lus)). Probably the quaestor with Cn. Dolabella in Cilicia in 80. (Broughton MRR III)