CANU1334 L. Canuleius (6, 12) (Dives)

Career

  • Legatus (Ambassador) 174 Aetolia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to Aetolia to compose serious factional strife there and reported their inability to do so (Liv. 41.25.5-6, and 27.4). See 173, Legates; and on Valerius, Münzer, Gent. Val. 47, no. 36; on Popillius, Münzer, APF 216ff. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 173 Aetolia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Early in 173 these reported the increase in factional strife in Aetolia (Liv. 42.2.1-2). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor 171 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Election Liv. 42.28.5 Provinces and armies 42.31.6-9. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Placed in charge of proceedings against three of his predecessors for peculation in Spain, he incurred suspicion of collusion when he interrupted the prosecution and went to his province (Liv. 43.2.1-12). He was instructed to found at Carteia a Latin colony of sons of soldiers and native women (43.3.1-4). Cf. Liv. 45.16.1. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 735 (Brennan 2000)
  • Promagistrate 170 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Probably continued in command in Spain until succeeded by Marcellus in 169 (see 169, Praetors). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 163 Aegyptus (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The names and identifications are satisfactory but not certain. See Otto, ABAW 11 (1934) 92f., and note 6. (Broughton MRR I)
    • These men (called Canuleius and Quintus by Polybius) aided in securing the temporary settlement between Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VII by which the latter received Cyrene, and in 162 witnessed to this in the Senate (Polyb. 31.10.1-5; cf. Liv. Per. 46; Trogus Prol. 34; Zon. 9.25). See Otto, ABAW 11 (1934) 93f. (Broughton MRR I)