Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

IUNI1973 M. Iunius (52) Brutus

Life Dates

  • 117?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R156.

  • 82, proscribed (Hinard 1985) Expand

    Hinard 82 no. 35

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

    Executed by Pompey.

Relationships

married to
Servilia (101) (daughter of Q. Servilius (50) Caepio (pr. before 90)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 240

father of
M. Iunius (53) M. f. Brutus = Q. Servilius Caepio Brutus (pr. 44) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

App. b.c. II 111 (464), Cic. Brut. 222, Cic. off. II 50, Cic. Phil. II 26, Cic. Phil. X 14, Plut. Brut. 1.1, Plut. Brut. 4.1, Plut. Pomp. 16.5, Plut. Pomp. 64.3

Career

  • Tribunus Plebis 83 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Carried a bill to colonize Capua (Cic. Leg. Agr. 2.89, 92-93, and 98). He induced the litigants in the case of Quinctius to delay proceedings (Cic. Quinct. 29 and 63 and 65). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Legatus 77. See MRR 2.91. His position as legatus in Cisalpine Gaul of M. Aemilius Lepidus, who apparently had command of both Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul (Badian, Foreign Clientelae 275, note 8; MR. Piganiol 910-911), is presented by Plut. Pomp. 16, though without a title. The phrases # in Plutarch and qui Cisalpinam Galliam obtinebat in Livy (Per. 90; cf. Oros. 5.24.16) might suggest an independent command, but there is no evidence that he had been praetor, an office he could hardly have held before 78 (Sumner, Orators 114). On his tribunate in 83 and foundation of Capua (MRR 2.63), see also P. B. Harvey, Athenaeum 60, 1982, 145-161. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 77 Gallia Cisalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Probably a Legate under Lepidus, he was holding Cisalpine Gaul for him, when he surrendered at Mutina, and was put to death by Pompey (Plut. Pomp. 16.2-5; Brut. 4.1-2; Sall. Hist. 1.79M; Liv. Per. 90; Val. Max. 6.2.8; Frontin. Str. 1.9.3; Oros. 5.22.17; Zonar. 10.2). See above, Promagistates, on Pompey. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Legatus 77. See MRR 2.91. His position as legatus in Cisalpine Gaul of M. Aemilius Lepidus, who apparently had command of both Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul (Badian, Foreign Clientelae 275, note 8; MR. Piganiol 910-911), is presented by Plut. Pomp. 16, though without a title. The phrases # in Plutarch and qui Cisalpinam Galliam obtinebat in Livy (Per. 90; cf. Oros. 5.24.16) might suggest an independent command, but there is no evidence that he had been praetor, an office he could hardly have held before 78 (Sumner, Orators 114). On his tribunate in 83 and foundation of Capua (MRR 2.63), see also P. B. Harvey, Athenaeum 60, 1982, 145-161. (Broughton MRR III)

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