Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SEMP0213 L. Sempronius (25) A. f. - n. Atratinus

Status

  • Patrician

Relationships

brother of
A. Sempronius (21) (A. f. - n.) Atratinus (tr. mil. c. p. 444) (RE)
father of
C. Sempronius (24) Atratinus (cos. 423) (RE)

Career

  • Consul Suffectus 444 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Livy (cf. Dion. Hal.) notes the fact that these Consuls appear neither in the early annalists nor the books of the magistrates but depend on Licinius Macer's reference to the treaty with Ardea and the libri lintei ad Monetae (4.7.12). See Leuze, Röm. Jahrzählung 190-193, 269-273. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cic. Fam. 9.21.2; Liv. 4.7.10-12, and 8.7; Dion. Hal. 11.62.3; Cassiod.; Zon. 7.19; Degrassi 95, 368f. Renewed the treaty of alliance with Ardea. On Papirius, see Lübker no. 14. (Broughton MRR I)
    • In MRR 1.53, in accord with the OCT edition of Livy 4.7.10-12, and 8.7 by Conway and Walters, these names are listed as consules suffecti in 444. See however B. W. Frier's explanation of their insertion from the Libri Lintei of Licinius Macer, and his argument that they formed in that record another consular college between Varronian years 444 and 443 (TAPhA 105, 1975, 79-97). Note also that like Mommsen he regards their appearance as censors as an invention. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Censor 443 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • This censorship, doubted by Mommsen (Str. 2.335), Beloch (RG 80ff.), and most recently by R. V. Cram (HSCPh 51 [1940] 73), is accepted by Leuze (Gesch. röm. Censur 95ff.) and Nilsson (JRS 19 [1929] 5), who connects the establishment of the censorship with the institution of the Military Tribunes with consular power. (Broughton MRR I)
    • First holders of this magistracy, created, as no census had been held for seventeen years (Dion. Hal.), to leave the Consuls free for military duties (Cic. Fam. 9.21.2; Liv. 4.8.2-7; Dion. Hal. 11.63.1-3; Dig. 1.2.2.17; Zon. 7.19; Degrassi 95, 368f.). On Papirius, see Lübker no. 14. (Broughton MRR I)
    • In MRR 1.53, in accord with the OCT edition of Livy 4.7.10-12, and 8.7 by Conway and Walters, these names are listed as consules suffecti in 444. See however B. W. Frier's explanation of their insertion from the Libri Lintei of Licinius Macer, and his argument that they formed in that record another consular college between Varronian years 444 and 443 (TAPhA 105, 1975, 79-97). Note also that like Mommsen he regards their appearance as censors as an invention. (Broughton MRR III)

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