Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

POMP1551 Q. Pompeius (12) A. f.

Status

  • Novus Expand

    Cic. Verr. 2.5.181; Cic. Mur. 16; Cic. Mur. 17; Cic. Font. 23

Life Dates

  • 184?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R47.

Relationships

son of
A. Pompeius (1) Auletes (father of Q. Pompeius (12) A. f. (cos. 141)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Plut. Mor. 200

brother of
A. Pompeius (2) (son of A. Pompeius (1) Auletes) (RE)
father of
Pompeia (51) (daughter of Q. Pompeius (12) A. f. (cos. 141)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 263

? Q. Pompeius (39) Q. f. A.? n. Rufus (cos. 88) (Zmeskal 2009)
grandfather of
C. Sicinius (7) (q. before 69) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 263

Career

  • Praetor before 143 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The latest date possible for their praetorships under the Lex Villia. On Pompeius, see D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 738 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 141 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Att. 12.5b; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 125, 468f. (C[n. - - - -], Q. Pompeius A. f. [- - - -]); Liv. Oxy. Per. 53; Chr. 354 (Ceplo et Nepote); Eutrop. 4.16 and 17; Cassiod.; on Servilius, Didasc. Ter. Phorm.; Val. Max. 8.5.1; and on Pompeius, Cic. Verr. 2.5.181; Mur. 16; Brut. 96; Lael. 77; Liv. Per. 54; Plut. Apophth. Scip. Min. 8; Val. Max. 9.3.7; Vell. 2.1.4. Servilius was placed in charge of the investigation of Hostilius Tubulus (see 142, Praetors) by the Senate (Cic. Fin. 2.54). Pompeius in Hither Spain was repulsed at Numantia, but subdued the Termestini (Liv. Oxy. Per. 54, and Per. 54; App. Ib. 76-78; Dio fr. 77; Oros. 5.4.13; see Schulten, Gesch. Numantia 69-72; below, 140, Promagistrates). On Pompeius, see D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 141. The notices in MRR (1.473, 476) regarding his promagistracy in Hisp. Ult. In 143 and 142 should be deleted. They are based on a confused passage placed by Viereck-Roos at the end of App. Ib. 68, and left by White in LCL at the end of 65. As Astin has shown (Historia 13, 1964, 245-264) the phrase # refers to the command of Fabius Maximus in Hisp. Ult. From 145 until early in 143 (MRR 1.469, 471). The rest from # should be removed. See also Simon, Kriege 82-86. Q. Pompeius (12) became governor of Hisp. Cit. when consul in 141 (MRR 1.477, 480, 482). See also Sumner, Orators 48; R. C. Knapp, Aspects 31, 196, 201-203. Consul 141. In AM 1.477, refer also to Vell. 2.21.5. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Promagistrate 140 Hispania Citerior (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Returned to invest Numantia again but assaults failed and the rigors and losses of a winter siege induced him to negotiate (App. Ib. 78-79; Diod. 33.19.1; see 139, Promagistrates; Schulten, Gesch. Num. 72f.; D.- G. 4.315, no. 3). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Promagistrate 139 Hispania Citerior (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Concluded a treaty with Numantia which was declared invalid by the Senate (Cic. Font. 23; Off. 3.109; Fin. 2.54; Liv. Per. 54; Vell. 2.1.5, and 90.3; Val. Max. 8.5.1; App. Ib. 79, and 83; Flor. 1.34.4; Dio fr. 79; Eutrop. 4.17; Oros. 5.4.21). See D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 136 Hispania Citerior (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Though hostile to each other and to the Consul Philus, they were compelled by the Senate at Philus' wish to serve with him in Spain (Val. Max. 3.7.5; Dio fr. 82). On Pompeius, see D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 131 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 126, 470f. (Q. Caecili[- - - -]); Liv. Per. 59, both plebeian for the first time; Fest. 360 L; on Metellus, Cic. Fin. 5.82; Dom. 123; Val. Max. 8.5.1; and on Pompeius, Cic. Brut. 263. Metellus in revising the list of senators passed over C. Atinius Labeo, who threatened to hurl him from the Tarpeian rock, and did consecrate his property (Cic. Dom. 123; Liv. Per. 59; Plin. NH 7.143). He also made his famous speech to the Senate urging compulsory marriage (Liv. Per. 59; Suet. Aug. 89; cf. FOR 1.97-100, 221f.). Ap. Claudius Pulcher, Cos. 143, the Princeps Senatus, probably died before the end of this censorship (see 130, Special Commissions), and L. Cornelius Lentulus Lupus, Cos. 156, was appointed as his successor. On Pompeius, see D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
    • L. Cornelius Lentulus Lupus (Cos. 156, Cens. 147), whose recent death occasioned Book I of the Satires of Lucilius, is termed Princeps Senatus in Acro's scholion to Hor. Sat. 2.1.67 (Marx, Proleg. XXXVI; Porphyrio mistakenly refers to Rutilius Lupus, Cos. 90), while the Princeps Senatus of 121 was P. Cornelius Lentulus (Cos. Suff. 162; see 125, Censors), who must have attained his position at the first previous censorship. References to the activities of the publicans in Asia led Cichorius (Untersuch. zu Lucilius 72-86) to believe that the early books of Lucilius were not published before the legislation of C. Gracchus in 123 (see 123, Tribunes of the Plebs), and that therefore Lupus' death was after 123. He even suggested a censorship, not otherwise attested, between 123 and 120 to account for the position of P. Corn. Lentulus in 121. Recent evidence has refuted him on both counts. New fragments of the S. C. de Agro Pergameno prove that it is to be dated in 129 (not 110, as Cichorius believed; Passerini, Athenaeum 15 [1937] 252-283), and that the publicans were active in Asia at that time; and the Fasti of Antium (Degrassi 162f.) show that no Censors were listed between 123 and 120. We must return to Marx's dating. Lentulus Lupus became Princeps Senatus upon the death of Claudius in 131 or 130, and died before the end of the censorship of 126-125, when he was succeeded by P. Lentulus. See 133, note 1. (Broughton MRR I)

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