Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

MEMM1595 C. Memmius (5, 3)

Sumner (Orators 85-86) points out that their probable ages are a consideration against identifying the tr. Mil. of 134 (MRR 1.491) with the tr. Pl. of 111 (MRR 1.541) and the pr. by 103 (1.559, 562, note 4). The date of his praetorship is quite uncertain but should not precede 107 (Sumner, loc. Cit.). He may be identified with a proconsul, almost certainly of Macedonia, in the later years of the second century. See MRR 1.564, 566, note 9, and RE no. 3. Sumner takes C. Memmius, Quaestor 76 (RE no. 7), to be his son, and C. Memmius C. f., monetalis in 57-56 and tr. Pl. in 54 (RE no. 9; MRR 2.223), to be his grandson. See the stemma (Sumner, op. cit. 87; and Criniti, L'Epigrafe di Asculum, stemma, 65, and p. 69, notes 19 and 20). (Broughton MRR III)

Life Dates

  • 143?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R97.

  • 100, death - violent (Broughton MRR I) Expand

    Murdered.

Relationships

grandson of
C. Memmius (4) (pr. 172) (RE)
son of
C. Memmius (A) (father of C. Memmius (5, 3) (pr.? 104)) (RE)
brother of
L. Memmius (12, 13) (leg. amb.? 112) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 136

Career

  • Tribunus Militum 134 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • With Scipio were also C. Marius and C. Lucilius (Vell. 2.9.4, on Lucilius; Vell. 2.9.4; Val Max. 8.15.7; Plut. Mar. 3.2-4, and 13.2, on Marius). Marius' position is uncertain, perhaps an eques (Plut. Mar. 13.2), for this service precedes his military tribunate (Sall. Iug. 63.3). Lucilius is termed an eques but as the brother, and later the brother-in-law also, of a senator, could have had an official positio on Scipio's staff (see Cichorius, Untersuch. Lucil. 14ff., 24ff.). (Broughton MRR I)
    • All served under Scipio at Numantia (Memmius: Frontin. Str. 4.1.1; Plut. Apophth. Scip. Min. 17. Rutilius: App. Ib. 88; Cic. Rep. 1.17; Suidas, s. v. {Gr}. Asellio: Gell. 2.13.3, the historian. Gracchus: Plut. TG 13.1, not specifically termed Tr. Mil.). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Militum 133 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • All served under Scipio at Numantia (Memmius: Frontin. Str. 4.1.1; Plut. Apophth. Scip. Min. 17. Rutilius: App. Ib. 88; Cic. Rep. 1.17; Suidas, s. v. {Gr}. Asellio: Gell. 2.13.3, the historian. Gracchus: Plut. TG 13.1, not specifically termed Tr. Mil.). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Plebis 111 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Forced the decision to make war on Jugurtha. Accused the Consul Bestia, Scaurus, and other nobles of accepting bribes from the King, and had the latter summoned to Rome under safe-conduct for questioning, but was impeded in his questioning of the King by the veto of his colleague Baebius (Sall. Iug. 27.1-5; 30-34; cf. Liv. Per. 64). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor? 104 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Memmius, a candidate for the consulship of 99, must have held the praetorship by 102; but the close association of his trial for extortion with that of Fimbria, with Scaurus witnessing against both, indicates that the consulship of the one and the praetorship of the other were probably contemporary. See 103, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cic. Font. 24; Val. Max. 8.5.2. (Broughton MRR I)
    • By 102. p. 746, footnote 243 (Brennan 2000)
  • Proconsul c. 103 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Termed {Gr} in IG 5.1.1432, in Messenia; so probably Proconsul in Macedonia. (Broughton MRR I)

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