Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SULP1662 C. Sulpicius (51) Ser. f. Ser. n. Galba

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 149?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R81.

  • 109, exiled (Broughton MRR I) Expand

    No record of restoration.

Relationships

son of
Ser. Sulpicius (58) Ser. f. P. n. Galba (cos. 144) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 98P.

brother of
? Ser. Sulpicius (59) Ser. f. Ser. n. Galba (cos. 108) (DPRR Team)
married to
Licinia (179) (daughter of P. Licinius (72) P. f. P. n. Crassus Dives Mucianus (cos. 131)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 127, Cic. Brut. 98P., Cic. de orat. I 239

father of
? Ser. Sulpicius (60) C. f. Ani. Galba (pr. before 90) (Zmeskal 2009)
? C. Sulpicius (9) C. f. Galba (son of? C. Sulpicius (51) Ser. f. Ser. n. Galba (pr. before 109)) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis? 121 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • A fragmentary inscription found at Carthage preserves portions of the names of these three men who were active on some commission in Africa in this period. Cichorius (Röm. Stud. 113-117) suggests that they were members of the Gracchan land commission which continued in existence until the socalled Lex Thoria (App. BC 1.27), with Galba and Bestia the members appointed after the deaths of Fulvius and Gracchus (see 130, Special Com{523}missions). Gelzer (Gnomon 5 [1929] 656f.) expresses the belief that these were a special African commission, a more probable view. The terminus ante quem is set by Carbo's death in 119, unless indeed the name restored here should be that of one of his brothers, Gnaeus, Consul 113, and Marcus, Pr. in Sicily in an unknown year. See also Carcopino, Autour des Gracques 134f., 163; Merlin, Inscriptions latines de la Tunisie no. 892. (Broughton MRR I)
    • CIL 1 .2.696- ILS 28; see CIL 1(2).2, p. 726; Cichorius, Röm. Stud. 113-117. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumvir Agris Dandis? 121 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • A fragmentary inscription found at Carthage preserves portions of the names of these three men who were active on some commission in Africa in this period. Cichorius (Röm. Stud. 113-117) suggests that they were members of the Gracchan land commission which continued in existence until the so called Lex Thoria (App. BC 1.27), with Galba and Bestia the members appointed after the deaths of Fulvius and Gracchus (see 130, Special Com{523}missions). Gelzer (Gnomon 5 [1929] 656f.) expresses the belief that these were a special African commission, a more probable view. The terminus ante quem is set by Carbo's death in 119, unless indeed the name restored here should be that of one of his brothers, Gnaeus, Consul 113, and Marcus, Pr. in Sicily in an unknown year. See also Carcopino, Autour des Gracques 134f., 163; Merlin, Inscriptions latines de la Tunisie no. 892. (Broughton MRR I)
    • CIL 1 .2.696- ILS 28; see CIL 1(2).2, p. 726; Cichorius, Röm. Stud. 113-117. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumvir Agris Dandis Assignandis 120 (Broughton MRR I)
  • Augur? 115 to 110 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 110 Numidia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • These three, along with Bestia (Cos. 111) and Albinus (Cos. 110) were convicted or forced into exile by the Mamilian commission (see 109, Tribunes of the Plebs), which was created to investigate the collusion, bribery, losses, and agreements connected with the Jugurthine war (Sall. Iug. 40.1; Cic. Brut. 128). Bestia in particular had brought leading nobles to Africa with him as Legates to shield his own misdeeds (Sall.). Cato therefore might have served under Bestia in 111 or Albinus in this year, and Galba also (see 119, Special Commissions). Of Opimius we know for a certainty only his part in dividing Numidia in 117 or 116 among the heirs of Micipsa (see 116, Legates). There is no record that A. Albinus (see above, Legates) was condemned by the commission. (Broughton MRR I)
    • On the basis of Cic. Brut. 127-128 and remarks in Sall. Iug. 32.2-3, and 40.1, Sumner suggests that a post as one of Calpurnius Bestia's legates in 111 and 110 may have made him a mark for the Mamilian commission (MRR 1.456), which convicted him, and that Cicero's phrase cecidit in cursu suggests that he may have been planning to run for the praetorship or the consulship in 109 (Orators 73-74). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor before 109 (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • p. 743, footnote 174 (Brennan 2000)
  • Augur after 110 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • One of the persons convicted by the Mamilian commission (Cic. Brut. 127; in collegio sacerdotum; possibly an Augur, cf. Auct. Ad Herenn. 1.20; see Tribunes of the Plebs, on Mamilius). (Broughton MRR I)

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