Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

LICI1321 P. Licinius (60) C. f. P. n. Crassus

Relationships

son of
C. Licinius (D) Crassus (father of P. Licinius (60) C. f. P. n. Crassus (cos. 171)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Liv. 21.18.1

nephew of
P. Licinius (69) P. f. P. n. Crassus Dives (cos. 205) (RE)
brother of
C. Licinius (51) C. f. P. n. Crassus (cos. 168) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Liv. XLII 58.12

M. Licinius (55a) Crassus (son of? C. Licinius (D) Crassus) (RE)
father of
? Licinia (178) (daughter of? P. Licinius (60) C. f. P. n. Crassus (cos. 171)) (Zmeskal 2009)
? M. Licinius (57) Crassus 'Agelastus' (pr. c. 127) (Zmeskal 2009)
? -. Licinius (178) (son of? P. Licinius (60) C. f. P. n. Crassus (cos. 171)) (Zmeskal 2009)
grandfather of
P. Licinius (61) M. f. P. n. Crassus (Dives) (cos. 97) (Badian 1990)

Career

  • Praetor 176 Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Election Liv. 41.14.5 Provinces 41.15.5. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Excused from his province when he took oath that religious duties prevented him from going (Liv. 41.15.9-10; 42.32.1-3). (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 734 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 171 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • CIL 1 .2.2661; Liv. 42.28.5, and 29.1; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 80f., 123, 458f.; Plin. NH 7.36; Gell. 9.4.15; Oros. 4.20.36; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Licinius, Eutrop. 4.6.3. Licinius was assigned the province of Macedonia (Liv. 42.31.1, 32.1-5, and 48.4), instructed to dismiss the Macedonian envoys (42.36.7; App. Mac. 11.9), and assemble his forces (Liv. 42.48.4). He crossed to Apollonia and advanced into Thessaly (42.49.1-10, and 55.1-10), met a reverse at Callinicus (Polyb. 27.8.1; Liv. 42.57-62, cf. 43.4.5; Plut. Aem. 9.2; Apophth. P. Lic. 197f.; Iustin. 33.1.4; Eutrop. 4.6.3; Oros. 4.20.37; Zon. 9.22), and refused Perseus' overtures for peace (Polyb. 27.8.1-15; Liv. 42.62.3-15; Plut. Apophth. P. Lic.; App. Mac. 12; Iustin. 33.1.5-6; Eutrop. 4.6.3). After a success at Phalanna he wintered part of his army in Thessaly and part in Boeotia (Liv. 42.64-67, cf. 43.4.5; Zon. 9.22). Cassius was assigned Italy (Liv. 42.31.1, and 32.1-5), but was active in Gaul and had to be restrained by decree of the Senate from attempting to attack Macedonia through Illyria (Liv. 43.1.4-12). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 171. L. Robert recognized the name of this consul in a fragment of a decree of the Senate which affected Coronea, and is probably of about the same date (170 B.C.) as the SC de Thisbensibus (Etudes epig. et phil. 287-292; cf. P. Meloni, Perseo 263-265). See Sherk, RDGE 32-33, no. 3; and, on Thisbe, SIG(3) 646; Sherk, RDGE 26-29, no. 2. See now a recently discovered in scription of Larisa of Thessaly, in which honors are given to two associates of Eumenes II and Attalus of Pergamum, present at the time of Publius, general of the Romans, i.e., P. Licinius Crassus, Consul in Thessaly in 171, at the beginning of the war with Perseus (K. I. Gallis, Analecta A. A. 13, 2, 1980, 246-249 and 261-262). See MRR 1.416. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 167 Macedonia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to Galatia with Attalus to attempt to mediate a war between the Galatians and Pergamum (Liv. 45.34.10-14; cf. Polyb. 30.3.7-9; Liv. 45.20.1-3; Diod. 31.7.2). (Broughton MRR I)

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