Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SULP1850 Ser. Sulpicius (60) C. f. Ani. Galba

Status

  • Patrician

Relationships

son of
? Licinia (179) (daughter of P. Licinius (72) P. f. P. n. Crassus Dives Mucianus (cos. 131)) (DPRR Team)
? C. Sulpicius (51) Ser. f. Ser. n. Galba (pr. before 109) (Zmeskal 2009)
brother of
? C. Sulpicius (9) C. f. Galba (son of? C. Sulpicius (51) Ser. f. Ser. n. Galba (pr. before 109)) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Praetor before 90 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 6 Galba's Position in Lucania at the outbreak of the Social War (Liv. Per. 72) seems similar to that of Q. Servilius at Asculum. In the list of Pompeius Strabo's consilium at Asculum in 89 Cichorius supplies the name [Ser. Sulpi]cius C. f. Ani(ensi), who was probably a Legate of praetorian rank (ILS 8888; Cichorius, RS 137-139). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Liv. Per. 72, and 73; App. BC 1.47; CIL 12.2.709-ILS 8888, and discussion in Cichorius, RS 137-139, and 141. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 744, footnote 191 (Brennan 2000)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 90 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 18 If the reading Sex. Sul in Liv. Per. 73 (ed. Rossbach, p. 82, line 24) which refers to the commander who defeated the Paeligni in 90, designates Sex. Iulius Caesar (see above, note 11), not Ser. Sulpicius - which seems preferable on account of the following word Paelignos, - we have no sure means of determining whether the Sulpicius who was a Legate of Pompeius Strabo in 90 and 89 was Ser. Sulpicius Galba, or P. Sulpicius Rufus, who was a Legate, we do not know Under whom, in 89, and may have been so in 90. Cichorius (RS 137-139, and 14 1) supplies the name [Ser. Sulpi]cius C. f. Ani(ensi) in ILS 8888 for the fourth in order of the staff of Pompeius Strabo in 89, and also identifies him with the Sulpicius Galba who served as a Legate under Sulla in the war with Mithridates (see 87, Legates). If Cichorius' suggestion is correct it excludes Rufus, who held the tribunate of the plebs in 88, since the praenomen Gaius is not found among the Sulpicii Rufi and they were registered in the Lemonian tribe (Cic. Phil. 9.15 and 17; ef. Joseph. AJ 14.220). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Served with or under Pompeius Strabo (App. BC 1.47; cf. Liv. Per. 76; Oros. 5.18.25). See ILS 8888, and discussion in Cichorius, RS 137-139, and 141. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. by 91. See MRR 2.30. Livy (Per. 72) notes his escape from capture by the Lucanians. Leg., lieut. 90, 89. See MRR 2.30, 37. In MRR 2.30, 32, note 18, 37, and 39, note 27, cf. H. B. Mattingly, Athenaeum 53, 1975, 263-266, who holds that the officer whose name is preserved in the list of Cn. Pompeius Strabo's consilium at Asculum as . . . ]cius C. f. Ani. Was not a Galba, as Cichorius held (RS 137- 139), but was a plebeian, perhaps a relative of the moneyer C. Sulpici(us) C. f. (9). Criniti, L'Epigrafe di Asculum 96-98, agrees with Cichorius.[201x] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Promagistrate? 90 Lucania (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Held command in Lucania (Liv. Per. 72). See 91, Praetors, and note 6; and below, Legates. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 89 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 27 On the identity of Galba, and the possibility of confusion between him and Sulpicius Rufus, see 90, Legates, and note 18. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Legate under Pompeius Strabo (Liv. Per. 76; Oros. 5.18.25; ILS 8888, with discussion in Cichorius, RS 137-139, and 141). He crushed the revolt among the Marrucini and the Vestini (Liv.; Oros.). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. by 91. See MRR 2.30. Livy (Per. 72) notes his escape from capture by the Lucanians. Leg., lieut. 90, 89. See MRR 2.30, 37. In MRR 2.30, 32, note 18, 37, and 39, note 27, cf. H. B. Mattingly, Athenaeum 53, 1975, 263-266, who holds that the officer whose name is preserved in the list of Cn. Pompeius Strabo's consilium at Asculum as . . . ]cius C. f. Ani. Was not a Galba, as Cichorius held (RS 137- 139), but was a plebeian, perhaps a relative of the moneyer C. Sulpici(us) C. f. (9). Criniti, L'Epigrafe di Asculum 96-98, agrees with Cichorius.[201x] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 88 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Pr. by 91. See MRR 2.30. Livy (Per. 72) notes his escape from capture by the Lucanians. Leg., lieut. 90, 89. See MRR 2.30, 37. In MRR 2.30, 32, note 18, 37, and 39, note 27, cf. H. B. Mattingly, Athenaeum 53, 1975, 263-266, who holds that the officer whose name is preserved in the list of Cn. Pompeius Strabo's consilium at Asculum as . . . ]cius C. f. Ani. Was not a Galba, as Cichorius held (RS 137- 139), but was a plebeian, perhaps a relative of the moneyer C. Sulpici(us) C. f. (9). Criniti, L'Epigrafe di Asculum 96-98, agrees with Cichorius.[201x] (Broughton MRR III)
    • See 89, Legates. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 86 Achaea (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Sulla (Plut. Sull. 17.7), who had a part in the battle of Chaeronea (Plut.; App. Mith. 43). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. by 91. See MRR 2.30. Livy (Per. 72) notes his escape from capture by the Lucanians. Leg., lieut. 90, 89. See MRR 2.30, 37. In MRR 2.30, 32, note 18, 37, and 39, note 27, cf. H. B. Mattingly, Athenaeum 53, 1975, 263-266, who holds that the officer whose name is preserved in the list of Cn. Pompeius Strabo's consilium at Asculum as . . . ]cius C. f. Ani. Was not a Galba, as Cichorius held (RS 137- 139), but was a plebeian, perhaps a relative of the moneyer C. Sulpici(us) C. f. (9). Criniti, L'Epigrafe di Asculum 96-98, agrees with Cichorius.[201x] (Broughton MRR III)

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