Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

AURE1683 M. Aurelius (215) Scaurus

Life Dates

  • 150?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R93.

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

    Captured by Cimbri, killed in captivity.

Relationships

grandson of
C. Aurelius (213) Scaurus (pr. 186) (Badian 1990)

Career

  • Quaestor c. 117 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Div. in Caec. 63; Ps.-Ascon. 203 Stangl; cf. Cic. Verr. 2.1.85. The date is a conjecture based on the interval frequent in this period between the quaestorship and the consulship. See below, Promagistrates, on Flaccus. See Sobeck 22. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor before 110 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The latest possible date under the Lex Villia. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 743 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul Suffectus 108 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The conclusion already reached in 1909 by Bloch that the Scaurus who was Cos. Suff. in 108 was not named M. Aemilius but M. Aurelius has since been confirmed by the Fasti of Antium (Bibl. Fac. Lett. Univ. Paris, 25.79ff.). (Broughton MRR I)
    • CIL 1 .2.675, 676; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 162f. (M. Aureli. Scaur.); Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f. ([- - - -] Scaurus); Obseq. 40 (M. Scauro); Fast. Hyd. (Scauro), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod. See Degrassi 127, 476f. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Additions and Corrections. The name of Ser. Sulpicius Galba appears alone in the date on a recently published inscription of the Campanian magistri (De Franciscis, Epigraphica 12 [1950] 126-130, pub. Dec. 1951), and probably gives an indication of the period after the condemnation of Hortensius and before the election of Aurelius Scaurus as Consul Suffectus. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 106 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Probably served under Servilius Caepio in Gaul this year (see 105, Legates).{555} (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 105 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Captured and killed by the Cimbri while serving under the Consul Mallius (Liv. Per. 67; Gran. Lic. 17 B; Oros. 5.16.2, Aemilius; cf. Vell. 2.12.2; Tac. Germ. 37; Dio 27, fr. 91; Ps.-Quintil. Decl. 3.13). (Broughton MRR I)

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