Legatus (Ambassador)
171
Crete
(Broughton MRR I)
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Sent to Crete to secure additional auxiliary troops for Licinius' army (Liv. 42.35.7). On Postumius, see Münzer, APF 213ff.; Lübker no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
Praetor
169
inter peregrinos, Rome
(Broughton MRR I)
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Election Liv. 43.11.7 Provinces and armies Liv. 43.11.8, 12.1-11, 15.2-3. (Broughton MRR I)
Liv. 44.16.7. (Broughton MRR I)
p. 735 (Brennan 2000)
Legatus (Ambassador)
168
Aegyptus
(Broughton MRR I)
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Sent to Egypt where Popillius by a summary demand compelled Antiochus IV to cease hostilities and retire from Egypt (Polyb. 29.2.1-4, and 27; Liv. 44.19.13, and 29.1-5; 45.10-12.8, and 13.1; cf. Cic. Phil. 8.23; Vell. 1.10.1-2; Val. Max. 6.4.3; Iustin. 34.3.1-4; Dio fr. 68; Zon. 9.25; see Otto, ABAW 11 [1934] 80ff.; Swain, CPh 39 [1944] 89-94). They also ordered Ptolemy to send a hostile Rhodian to Rome (Polyb. 30.9.2). On Popillius, see Lübker no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
Leg., amb. 168. See the note on C. Popillius Laenas (18), in MRR 1.430, and below.
(Broughton MRR III)