Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SEXT1895 P. Sextilius (12) Fal.? Rufus?

Career

  • Praetor? 92 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • See 88, Praetors, and Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. 92? and propr. Africa. See MRR 2.33, 41, 49, 45, note 4. For a possible tribe and cognomen, see Wiseman, NM 261, no. 401. At some time in Cicero's youth a P. Sextilius Rufus cheated a friend's daughter of her inheritance, claiming that it was against the Lex Voconia and that he was bound by oath to uphold the law (Cic. Fin. 2.19). The oath indicates that he was a magistrate in office, in this case a praetor. Badian suggests that he was the P. Sextilius who became governor of Africa, was praetor in 92, and propr. in Africa probably through, and certainly after, the Social War (Studies 71-72; JRS 55, 1965, 113). (Broughton MRR III)
    • Before 88. p. 747, footnote 277 (Brennan 2000)
  • Propraetor 88 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Pr. 92? and propr. Africa. See MRR 2.33, 41, 49, 45, note 4. For a possible tribe and cognomen, see Wiseman, NM 261, no. 401. At some time in Cicero's youth a P. Sextilius Rufus cheated a friend's daughter of her inheritance, claiming that it was against the Lex Voconia and that he was bound by oath to uphold the law (Cic. Fin. 2.19). The oath indicates that he was a magistrate in office, in this case a praetor. Badian suggests that he was the P. Sextilius who became governor of Africa, was praetor in 92, and propr. in Africa probably through, and certainly after, the Social War (Studies 71-72; JRS 55, 1965, 113). (Broughton MRR III)
    • See above, Praetors. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Propraetor 87 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • See 88, Praetors. His authority in Africa, to which he had refused the Marian exiles entrance, almost certainly continued into 87. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. 92? and propr. Africa. See MRR 2.33, 41, 49, 45, note 4. For a possible tribe and cognomen, see Wiseman, NM 261, no. 401. At some time in Cicero's youth a P. Sextilius Rufus cheated a friend's daughter of her inheritance, claiming that it was against the Lex Voconia and that he was bound by oath to uphold the law (Cic. Fin. 2.19). The oath indicates that he was a magistrate in office, in this case a praetor. Badian suggests that he was the P. Sextilius who became governor of Africa, was praetor in 92, and propr. in Africa probably through, and certainly after, the Social War (Studies 71-72; JRS 55, 1965, 113). (Broughton MRR III)

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