Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SULP1173 C. Sulpicius (66) C. f. C. n. Galus

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Cic. Brut. 20.78

Life Dates

  • 209?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R20, Develin p. 90.

Relationships

grandson of
C. Sulpicius (65) C. f. Ser. n. Galus (cos. 243) (Badian 1990)
son of
? C. Sulpicius (8) (Galus) (pr. 211) (Brennan 2000)
father of
Q. Sulpicius (69) Galus (son of C. Sulpicius (66) C. f. C. n. Galus (cos. 166)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 90, Cic. fam. IV 6.1, Cic. Lael. 9, Liv. per. 49, Quintil. inst. II 15.8, Val. Max. VIII 1

Career

  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 191 Hispania Ulterior (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 43.2.1-11, on which Münzer (RE) bases the conjecture that he served under Aemilius Paullus in Spain. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 182 Liguria (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Probably Legates of Paullus throughout his command in Liguria (Liv. 40.28.8; see 181, Legates; and Münzer, RE no. 66). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Militum 181 (Suolahti 1955) Expand
    • A.97 (Suolahti 1955)
  • Legatus (Envoy) 181 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent by Aemilius Paullus to the Senate (Liv. 40.28.8). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Special Commissioners 171 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • A commission, apparently of former officials in Spain, chosen as patrons by peoples of Spain who complained of the peculations of the following governors: 1. M. Titinius (Curvus) (see 178, 177, 176), who was acquitted; 2. P. Furius Philus (see 174, 173, 172); and 3. C. (not M.) Matienus (see 173), who both went into exile (Liv. 43.2.1-11). On Cato, see D.- G. 5.130, no. 15. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 166. The connection with Spain implied in his appointment in 171 to the commission on misgovernment there (Liv. 43.2.5, 7; MRR 1.419) may well have been made after 191, the date suggested by Münzer; cf. MRR 1.355. See Sumner, Orators 37-38, who also suggests that he was, like his fellow envoy, L. Aurelius Cotta, a military tribune under Aemilius Paullus in Liguria in 182-181 (Liv. 42.27.6, and 28.8) and would change the praenomen L. in that passage to C. It would be the only example of L. among the patrician Sulpicii. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor 169 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Election Liv. 43.11.7 Provinces and armies Liv. 43.11.8, 12.1-11, 15.2-3. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Aided the levy (Liv. 43.14.2-5, 15.1 and 4-5), and provided winter supplies for the army in Macedonia (44.16.4); put on the Thyestes of Ennius (Cic. Brut. 78). Cf. Liv. 43.16.11; 44.17.3. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 735, footnote 97 (Brennan 2000)
  • Tribunus Militum 168 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Served under Paullus at Pydna, where he forewarned the soldiers of a lunar eclipse (Polyb. 29.16.1; Cic. Rep. 1.23, legatus; Liv. 44.37.5-9; Val. Max. 8.11.1, legatus; Plin. NH 2.53; Quintil. Inst. Or. 1.10.47; Frontin. Str. 1.12.8; Plut. Aem. 17.5-7). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 168 Macedonia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See above, Tribunes of the Soldiers. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Militum 167 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Probably all or almost all the Tribunes of the Soldiers and the Lieutenants who served in Macedonia and Illyria continued until their respective commanders returned. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Had command of the winter camp; and was rebuked by Paullus for guarding Perseus carelessly and indulging his soldiers (Liv. 45.27.6, and 28.10; see 168, Legates). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Consul 166 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Rep. 1.21 and 23; Liv. 45.44.2; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 50f., 123, 460f.; Plin. NH 2.53; Suet. Vit. Ter. 4; Obseq. 12; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; cf. Didasc. Ter. And. (Donatus). Claudius served against the Alpine Gauls and Sulpicius against the Ligurians, and both celebrated triumphs (Liv. Per. 46; Act. Tr. Cap. and Urbisalv., Degrassi 80f., 338f., 556f.). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumphator 166 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Liguribus Tal[...]rneis. MRR I.437, Itgenshorst no. 204, Rich no. 203. (Rich 2014)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 164 Achaea, Asia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to observe conditions in Greece, to arbitrate a territorial dispute between Sparta and Megalopolis, and particularly to inves{440}tigate the actions of Eumenes of Pergamum and Antiochus of Syria, even hearing accusations against Eumenes publicly at Sardis (Polyb. 31.1.6-8, and 6.1-6; Diod. 31.7.2; Pausan. 7.11.1-3; cf. SIG 665, line 44). (Broughton MRR I)

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