Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

FLAV1946 C. Flavius (88) Fimbria

See MRR 2.56 and 59. Noting Fimbria's different titles in the sources, legatus in the Livian tradition (Liv. Per. 82; Auct. Vir. Ill. 70.1; Oros. 6.2.9; # in Dio, fr. 104, 1B), praefectus equitum (Veil. 2.24.1, probably in 87), and quaestor (Strabo 13.1.27), Lintott holds that he was probably the consul's quaestor, first of Marius, and then certainly of Valerius Flaccus (and in this capacity may have prosecuted Q. Mucius Scaevola, Cic. Rosc. Amer. 33). He had commanded cavalry in 87, and could have done so in 86. After the murder of Flaccus Fimbria claimed imperium, perhaps as proquaestor pro praetore (see Lintott, Historia 20, 1971, 696-701). Sumner (Orators 124) takes him to be a quaestor in 86 and a legatus in 85; see also Weinrib, Phoenix 22, 1968, 43, note 45. (Broughton MRR III)

Life Dates

  • 115?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R173.

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

    Suicide.

Relationships

son of
C. Flavius (87) C. f. Fimbria (cos. 104) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

App. b.c. 1.91 (421)

brother of
-. Flavius (86) Fimbria (pr.? before 81) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

App. b.c. I 91 (421)

Career

  • Legatus (Envoy) 87 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Sent by Marius and Cinna to the Samnites to concede terms which h«d been refused by Metellus and the Senate, and won their support for the Marians (Gran. Lic. 29B; cf. Liv. Per. 80; App. BC 1.68). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 86 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate of the Consul Valerius Flaccus, whom he killed in a mutiny. He seized command of Valerius' army (Diod. 38.8.1-2; Liv. Per. 82; Strabo 13.1.27, 594c; Vell. 2.24.1; Plut. Sull. 23.6; Luc. 7.2; Memnon in FGrH (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 85 Pontus (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Assuming illegal command of the army of Valerius Flaccus, he defeated the forces of Mithridates' son at Miletopolis and penned in Mithridates himself at Pitane, in addition to sacking Cyzicus and Ilium (FGrH 2 B. 115 1, no. 252; Diod. 38. 8; Liv. Per. 83, and fr. 20 in Augustin. CD 3.7; Vell. 2.24.1; Strabo 13.1.27, 594c; Frontin. Str. 3.17.5; Plut. Sull. 23.6; Luc. 3.4-8; App. Mith. 52-53, and 56; Gran. Lic. 33 B; Memnon 34, in FGrH 3 B.353, and 40, ibid. 356; Dio 30-35, fr. 104.6-7; Obseq. 56b; Auct. Fir. Ill. 70.2-4; Oros. 6.2.9-11). When his army was taken over by Sulla at Thyatira he committed suicide in the Asclepicium at Pergamum (FGrH 2B.1151, no. 252; Diod. 38.8; Liv. Per. 83; Vell. 2.24.1; Strabo 13.1.27, 594c; Plut. Sull. 25.1; App. Mith. 59-60; Auct. Fir. Ill. 70.4; Oros. 62.9-11). (Broughton MRR II)

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