TORA2106 C. Toranius (4)

Life Dates

  • 43, proscribed (Hinard 1985) Expand

    Hinard 43 no. 138

  • Before 41?, death - violent (Hinard 1985) Expand

    Executed as proscriptus. Hinard 43 no. 138

Career

  • Quaestor 73 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • The spelling Thoranius in Sall. and Flor. is corrected to Toranius by Münzer on basis of ILS 47-Inser. Ital. 13.3.75 b. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Served under P. Varinius, and was also defeated by Spartacus (Sall. Hist. 3.96 M; Flor. 2.8.5). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Aedilis Plebis c. 64 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 3 The date of these aedileships is not securely attested, but since Octavius held the praetorship in 61, this is a probable year. (Broughton MRR II)
    • CIL 12. 1, p. 199-Inscr. Ital. 13.3.75b-ILS 47; cf. Suet. Aug. 27. 1. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Munzer, after first rejecting the identification of the colleague of C. Octavius in the aedileship, ca. 64, with C. Turranius (4), Pr. 44, reversed his position in his article in RE on the latter. Valerius Maximus (9.11.5, Toranius), Orosius (6.18.9, Thoranius), and Appian (BC 4.18, #) all refer to an aged ex- praetor who was proscribed and killed. There is no evidence that the colleague of C. Octavius attained the praetorship, but Suetonius (Aug. 27.1) reports that Octavian proscribed C. Toranius, his guardian and his father's colleague in the aedileship, while Appian (BC 4.12) refers to the same event and gives the name #. Against his identification there are also the mss tradition of Cic. Phil. 3.25 (Turranius) and the long interval between an aedileship in 64 and a praetorship in 44. Despite Willems (Senat 1.566, cf. 466, no. 105), the notices regarding the ex-praetor should be referred to C. Turranius (4) and the others to C. Toranius (4). Conceivably C. Toranius could have held a praetorship, but if so Suetonius ignores it. Nor is it probable that the Toranius to whom Cicero sent a letter of encouragement in 45 (Fam. 6.20 and 21) received a praetorship in 44. (RS, CP; TJC) See also Wiseman, NM 267, no. 439. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor before 60 (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • p. 754, footnote 439 (Brennan 2000)