Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

PAPI1835 C. Papirius (40) C. f. Carbo Arvina

Life Dates

  • 124?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R154.

  • 82, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    Executed by Brutus Damasippus.

Relationships

son of
C. Papirius (33) C. f. Carbo (cos. 120) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Orat. 213

married to
? Rubria (25) (married to? C. Papirius (34) (Cn. f.) Carbo (pr.? 81)) (Zmeskal 2009)
father of
? C. Papirius (35) Carbo (pr. 62) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 94 Gallia Cisalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • No title preserved. Münzer (RE) interprets a passage of Valerius Maximus (3.7.6) to mean that he was on the staff of L. Crassus in Gaul (see above, Promagistrates), but the text apparently indicates that he went to Gaul on his own authority. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Tribunus Plebis 90 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 8 Niccolini (FTP 223) has rightly seen that there were two persons named C. Carbo active at this time. The filiation of one was C. f., and of the other Cn. f., who was therefore a brother of the Consul of 85, 84, and 82. Both attained praetorships, and both died in the civil wars, Arvina at Rome in 82 (confused by Velleius with the brother of the Consul), and the other at Volaterrae in 81 (Gran. Lic. 39 B; Val. Max. 9.7, ext. 3). Niccolini has shown that Cicero in Brut. 305 lists the Tribunes of 90, not of 90 and 89. The Tribune of 90 is most probably the orator who is designated as C. f. and Tribune in Orator 213. The Tribune who was co-author of the Lex Plautia Papiria in 89 was Cn. f., the brother of the future Consul. To Niccolini's arguments for a date in 90 a decisive addition is Cicero's presence at the meeting Carbo held, for Cicero served in the Social War in 89 under Pompeius Strabo (Phil. 12.27) and later in the same year under Sulla at Nola (Plut. Cic. 3.1; Cic. Div. 1.72; 2.65), and probably had little opportunity to hear the Tribunes of 89. Furthermore, Carbo's apostrophe to Livius Drusus in Orator 213 implies that his death was recent. Niccolini's view has been accepted by Münzer (RE). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Brut. 305, C. Carbo, and 311; Orat. 213, C. Carbo C. f.; De Or. 3.10; Val. Max. 9.2.3, Carbo Arvina; Vell. 2.26.2. ? Cn. Pomponius (not in *RE) Cic. Brut. 305 and 311. (Broughton MRR II)
    • 9 Not specifically termed Tribune, but listed by Cicero among Tribunes who were in office in 90. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 89 Italia (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor before 82 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 3 On the identity of Garbo, see 90, Tribunes of the Plebs, and note 8. Velleius calls him a brother of the Consul of 82, but the Consul's brother was killed at Volaterrae in 81 (Gran. Lic. 39 B; Val. Max. 9.7.3). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Vell. 2.26.2, an ex-Praetor in 82; cf. Cic. De Or. 3.10; Brut. 311; Val. Max. 9.2.3. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 748, footnote 295 (Brennan 2000)

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