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CALP1795 L. Calpurnius (89) Piso (Caesoninus)

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Status

• Nobilis Expand

  Cic. Pis. fr.4 ap. Ascon. Pis. 5C

Relationships

son of

L. Calpurnius (88) L. f. C. n. Piso Caesoninus (cos. 112) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Caes. BG I 12.7

married to

Calventia (B) (daughter of -. Calventius (not in RE)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Pis. 53

father of

L. Calpurnius (90) L. f. L. n. Men. Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Caes. BG I 12.7

Career

• Quaestor? 103 Rome (Broughton MRR III) Expand
  • Pr. 90. Quaestor 103 or 100. In MRR 2.576, refer also to Crawford, RRC 330-331, no. 330, 100 B.C.: coinage of Piso as quaestor along with Caepio for the purchase of grain. See RS, MS-RP 1.277. The date depends on that of the Lex frumentaria of Saturninus. See above, and Gruen, Historia 15, 1966, 44, note 72. (Broughton MRR III)
• Quaestor? 100 Rome (Broughton MRR III) Expand
  • Last and Passerini (see note 3) are inclined to place Caepio's quaestorship in 103 along with the grain law of Saturninus. Sydenham (Num. Chron. 20 [1940] 164-178) argues for a date toward 94, even if we must assume that the man who issued the coins was another Caepio, because a date as early as 100 makes the body of coins issued between 110 and 100 inordinately large in comparison with those issued between 100 and 90. The record however of the wars of the period, the need of men and supplies, and of the money to provide them, favors just the sort of disproportion which Sydenham finds. It is not a serious objection to a date in 100 but does count against a date in 103. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Caepio protested the burden of Saturninus' grain law upon the treasury, and for his violent resistence was later prosecuted under the Lex Appuleia de maiestate, but acquitted (Auct. Ad Herenn. 1.21; 2.17; 4.35; Sall. Hist. 1.62 M). With his colleague Piso he issued a coinage by decree of the Senate for the purchase of grain (Grueber, CRRBM 1.170f.: ad fru. emu. ex S. C., and Q(uaestores)). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Pr. 90. Quaestor 103 or 100. In MRR 2.576, refer also to Crawford, RRC 330-331, no. 330, 100 B.C.: coinage of Piso as quaestor along with Caepio for the purchase of grain. See RS, MS-RP 1.277. The date depends on that of the Lex frumentaria of Saturninus. See above, and Gruen, Historia 15, 1966, 44, note 72. (Broughton MRR III)
• Moneyer 100 (RRC) Expand
  • ref. 330 (RRC)
• Praetor 90 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
  • Pr. 90. Quaestor 103 or 100. In MRR 2.576, refer also to Crawford, RRC 330-331, no. 330, 100 B.C.: coinage of Piso as quaestor along with Caepio for the purchase of grain. See RS, MS-RP 1.277. The date depends on that of the Lex frumentaria of Saturninus. See above, and Gruen, Historia 15, 1966, 44, note 72. (Broughton MRR III)
  • p. 747, footnote 275 (c. 90) (Brennan 2000)

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