Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

TERE1982 M. Terentius (Licinius 109) M. f. Varro Lucullus

Status

  • Nobilis Expand

    Schol. Bob. Arch. 177 Stangl

Life Dates

  • 116, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R157.

Relationships

grandson of
? L. Licinius (102) Lucullus (cos. 151) (Brennan 2000)
son of
? L. Licinius (103) Lucullus (pr. 104) (DPRR Team)
? Caecilia (132) Metella (daughter of? L. Caecilius (83) Q. f. L. n. Metellus Calvus (cos. 142)) (DPRR Team)
brother of
? M. Terentius (90) Varro Lucullus (son of M. Terentius (A) Varro) (DPRR Team)
? M. Licinius (109) Lucullus (son of? L. Licinius (103) Lucullus (pr. 104)) (DPRR Team)
L. Licinius (104) L. f. L. n. Lucullus Ponticus (cos. 74) (Badian 1990)

Career

  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 83 Gallia Cisalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate (Plut. Sull. 27.7), or Quaestor (Plut. Luc. 37.1). See 82, Legates. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Propraetor 82 Gallia Cispadana (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Propraetor in Cispadane Gaul (CIL 12.2.719, perhaps 81 B.C.; cf. 742). Won a victory over Papirius Carbo's Legate Quinctius at Fidentia (Liv. Per. 88; Vell. 2.28.1; Plut. Sull. 27.7-8; App. BC 1.92, at Placentia; Oros. 5.20.3). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Aedilis Curulis 79 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 2 Pliny attests a date 20 years after the aedileship of C. Claudius Pulcher (99 B.C.), Granius Lieinianus the fact that they were Curule Aediles. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Acad. 2.1; Off. 2.57; Val. Max. 2.4.6; Plin. NH 8.19; Plut. Luc. 1.6; Gran. Lic. 39B. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Aed. Cur. 79. See above, on L. Licinius Lucullus (104). Cos. 73. On the iudicium mentioned in MRR 2.93, see now B. W. Frier, TAPhA 113, 1983, 232-234. Procos. Macedonia and Thrace 72-71. He is termed imperator in a Greek inscription of Mesembria (Detchev, Bull. Arch. Inst. Sophia 17, 1951, 59-64; known to me from Bull. Epig., REG 65, 1952, no. 87; 67, 1954, no. 177; G. Tibiletti, Ist. Lombard. Scienze a Lettere 86, 1953, 70-71). See above, on C. Cornelius C. f. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Pontifex? 77 to 58 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • The full list of the college of Pontifices, including the Flamen Martialis and the Flamen Quirinalis (no Flamen Dialis had been inaugurated since the death of Merula in 87) and the Pontifices Minores, as it was composed on September 29, 57, can be reconstructed from Cic. Har. Resp. 12: (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Dom. 132; Att. 4.2.4. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor 76 inter peregrinos, Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Presided over the trial of C. Antonius Hibrida for extortion (Cic. Tog. Cand., and Ascon. 84C; Q. Cic. Comm. Pet. 8; Plut. Caes. 4.1, with praenomen Publius; on Antonius, see 84, Prefeets), and issued an edict regarding crimes by armed bands of slaves (Cic. Tull. 5-12). (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 751, footnote 365 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 73 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • CIL 12.2.896; SIG³ 747; Cic. Verr. 2.1.60; Cluent. 137; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 131, 486f. (M. [Teren]tius M. f. [- n. Var]r. Lucull., C. Ca[ssiu]s L. f. [-]); Chr. 354 (Varro et Licinio); Fast. Hyd. (Marco Lucullo et Cassio Longino); Chr. Pasc. (#); Oros. 5.24.1; Cassiod.; and on Lucullus, Ps.-Ascon. 222 Stangl. The Consuls together carried a grain law (Cic. Verr. 2.3.163 and 173; and 5.52; Sall. Hist. 3.48.19 M). Lucullus may have begun his term of command in Macedonia in this year (Cic. Verr. 2.2.24; Ps.-Ascon. 261 Stangl; see 72, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Aed. Cur. 79. See above, on L. Licinius Lucullus (104). Cos. 73. On the iudicium mentioned in MRR 2.93, see now B. W. Frier, TAPhA 113, 1983, 232-234. Procos. Macedonia and Thrace 72-71. He is termed imperator in a Greek inscription of Mesembria (Detchev, Bull. Arch. Inst. Sophia 17, 1951, 59-64; known to me from Bull. Epig., REG 65, 1952, no. 87; 67, 1954, no. 177; G. Tibiletti, Ist. Lombard. Scienze a Lettere 86, 1953, 70-71). See above, on C. Cornelius C. f. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 72 Macedonia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Macedonia (Cic. Verr. 2.2.23-24; Liv. Per. 97; Plut. Caes. 4.1; Ps.-Ascon. 261 Stangl). He carried Roman arms to the Danube, and won the Greek cities on the shores of the Black Sea (Sall. Hist. 4.18 M, cf. 3.51 M; Liv. Per. 97; Strabo 7.6.1, 319c; Plin. NH 34.39; App. Illyr. 30; Flor. 1.39.6; Ruf. Fest. 9.2-4; Eutrop. 6.7, and 8, and 10; Ammian. Marc. 27.4.11; Oros. 6.3.4; cf. Jerome, Chr. ad ann. 7 1, p . 152 Helm). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Aed. Cur. 79. See above, on L. Licinius Lucullus (104). Cos. 73. On the iudicium mentioned in MRR 2.93, see now B. W. Frier, TAPhA 113, 1983, 232-234. Procos. Macedonia and Thrace 72-71. He is termed imperator in a Greek inscription of Mesembria (Detchev, Bull. Arch. Inst. Sophia 17, 1951, 59-64; known to me from Bull. Epig., REG 65, 1952, no. 87; 67, 1954, no. 177; G. Tibiletti, Ist. Lombard. Scienze a Lettere 86, 1953, 70-71). See above, on C. Cornelius C. f. (Broughton MRR III)
    • Additions and Corrections. In the spring of 1952 an inscription was found in the Agora of Athens bearing the name of M. Terentius Varro Lucullus. He was honoured as Proconsul, presumably when he held command of Macedonia in 72-71 BC (Agora Excavation , Inv. I 3158, from a columnar monument, of Hymettian marble. The pieces came modern house walls near the S.E. corner of the Agora). I owe this information to Professor Homer Thompson and Miss Lucy Talcott. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 71 Macedonia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Macedonia (See 72, Promagistrates). Summoned by the Senate to aid Crassus against Spartacus, he returned to Italy in 71 (Plut. Crass. 11.2; App. BC 1.120, who confuses him with his brother in Asia), and celebrated his triumph over the Bessi (Cic. Pis. 44; Eutrop. 6.10; Jerome Chr. ad ann. 71, p. 152 Helm; Ps.- Ascon. 222 Stangl; Schol. Bob. 177 Stangl; cf. Oros. 6.3.4; and on his booty, Strabo 7.6.1, 319c; Plin. NH 4.92; 34.36 and 39; App. Illyr. 30). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Aed. Cur. 79. See above, on L. Licinius Lucullus (104). Cos. 73. On the iudicium mentioned in MRR 2.93, see now B. W. Frier, TAPhA 113, 1983, 232-234. Procos. Macedonia and Thrace 72-71. He is termed imperator in a Greek inscription of Mesembria (Detchev, Bull. Arch. Inst. Sophia 17, 1951, 59-64; known to me from Bull. Epig., REG 65, 1952, no. 87; 67, 1954, no. 177; G. Tibiletti, Ist. Lombard. Scienze a Lettere 86, 1953, 70-71). See above, on C. Cornelius C. f. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Triumphator 71 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Besseis. MRR II.124, Itgenshorst no. 250, Rich no. 250. (Rich 2014)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 70 Pontus, Armenia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 6 Both the exact date for the sending of the commission and the identification of Murena remain uncertain. The commissioners were appointed before 66 (Die 36.43.2) and were in Pontus before that time. The most suitable moment for their appointment would follow the complete occupation of Pontus in 70, and precede the invasion of Armenia (Plut. Luc. 24. 1; see Gelzer, RE, s. v. "Licinius" 104). A group of appointments, so strongly favorable to Lucullus, suggests the leadership of the Consuls of 69 rather than of 70, yet a political climate in Rome more favorable than that which set in in 69. Gelzer supposes that Murena was Sulla's former Legate (RE no. 122), once the superior officer of Lucullus in Asia (see 84-81, Promagistrates) and father of Lucullus' Legate, the future Consul of 62 (RE no. 123), but Münzer (RE no. 123) and Magic (Roman Rule in Asia Minor 2.1219, note 58) identify him with the son. Both men satisfy Cicero's statement that the commissioners were coniunctissimi ad L. Lucullum (Att. 13.6 a), but Cicero makes no reference to such a special position when describing the son's services in Pontus and Armenia (Mur. 20). The father was dead before 63 (Mur. 88 and 90), but the date is not indicated. See Broughton, TAPhA 77 (1946) 40-43. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Elected with eight others who all were sent to assist Lucullus in organizing the former territory of Mithridates of Pontus (Cic. Att. 13.6a; cf. Plut. Luc. 24.1; 35.5; 36.1; Dio 36.43.2, and 46.1). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 69 Pontus, Armenia (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 68 Pontus, Armenia (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 67 Pontus, Armenia (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 66 Pontus, Armenia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • When Pompey refused to recognize the work of Lucullus and the commissioners they returned to Rome (Plut. Luc. 36.6; Pomp. 3 1; 38. 1; Dio 36.43.2, and 46.1-2). See Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor 1.349; 2.1219, note 58, who holds that they did not arrive in Asia Minor until 67. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Pontifex 57 to after 56 (Rüpke 2005)

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