Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CALP2168 L. Calpurnius (90) L. f. L. n. Men. Piso Caesoninus

Status

  • Nobilis Expand

    Cic. Pis. 1.2, 22.53, Cic. Sest. 9.21, Catul. 28.1-13, Vell. 2.59.2 (candidates for pr 61, except C. Octavius, "nobilissimi viri")

Relationships

grandson of
L. Calpurnius (88) L. f. C. n. Piso Caesoninus (cos. 112) (Badian 1990)
son of
Calventia (B) (daughter of -. Calventius (not in RE)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. ad Q. fr. III 1.11, Cic. Pis. 14, Cic. Pis. 53, Cic. Pis. 62, Cic. Pis. 67, Cic. prov. 7, Cic. p. red. in Sen. 13, Cic. p. red. in Sen. 15

L. Calpurnius (89) Piso (Caesoninus) (pr. 90) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Caes. BG I 12.7

cousin of
C. Cornelius (89) Cethegus (sen. 63) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. p. red. in Sen. 10

married to
Rutilia? (39) (daughter of? P. Rutilius (30) Nudus (pr. before 74)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Pison. 10C, Asc. Pison. 5C, Cic. dom. 62, Cic. Pis. 26

father of
L. Calpurnius (99) Piso Frugi (son of L. Calpurnius (90) L. f. L. n. Men. Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Tac. ann. VI 10

Calpurnia (126) (daughter of L. Calpurnius (90) L. f. L. n. Men. Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

App. b.c. II 14 (51), Caes. BG I 12.7, Cic. dom. 23, Cic. off. III 82, Cic. Phil. I 28, Cic. Pis. 59, Cic. Pis. 78, Cic. Pis. 90, Cic. Pis.. 37, Cic. prov. 7, Cic. Sest. 135, Dio XL 63.2, Dio XL 63.3, Dio XL 63.4, Dio XLI 16.4, Dio XLI 5.2, Plut. Caes. 14.5(4), Plut. Caes. 37.1, Plut. Cato min. 33.4(3), Plut. Pomp. 47.6(4), Plut. Pomp. 48.3, Suet. Caes. 21, Suet. Caes. 22.1, Suet. Caes. 83.1

Career

  • Quaestor 70 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Quaestor before he prosecuted Fonteius in 69 (Cic. Font. 1). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Aedilis Curulis 64 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Pis. 1-2, where he compares the careers of Piso and himself. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor 61 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • 1 This is the latest date possible under the Cornelian law. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
    • Cic. Pis. 2, date uncertain. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 753, footnote 437 (Brennan 2000)
  • Proconsul? c. 60 Hispania Citerior (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul? c. 59 Hispania Citerior (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Consul 58 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • CIL 12.2.756, 919, 920, 963, 2500, 2512; Caes. BG 1.6.4; Ascon. 8 and 46 C; Plut. Pomp. 48.3; Cat. Min. 33.4; App. BC 2.14; Die 38, Index, 9.1, and 13.2; Chr. 354 (Calsoniano et Cavonio); Fast. Hyd. (Pisone et Gabinio); Chr. Pasc. (#); Cassiod.; and on Piso, CIL 12.1.2512; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f.; Plut. Caes. 14.4-5. See Degrassi 56f., 131, 492f. Despite Piso's initial compliments to Cicero (Cic. Pis. 11; P. Red. in Sen. 17; P. Red. ad Quir. 11; cf. Sest. 20; Schol. Bob. 108 Stangl), he and his colleague actively supported the Tribune Clodius (Cic. Sest. 18 and 24-25 and 32-33 and 53-55 and 69-70; P. Red. in Sen. 10-18 and 31-32; P. Red. ad Quir. 13-14; Pis. 8 and 13-23 and 48 and 72 and 77; Dom. 55 and 62 and 66 and 70 and 124; Planc. 86-87; Ascon. 7 C, on Piso, and 9; Plut. Cic. 31; Dio 38.16; and on Gabinius, Cic. Fam. 11.16.2; 12.29.1; Plut. Pomp. 49.2; Dio 38.30.2; Schol. Bob. 127f. Stangl). Under one of the laws of Clodius Piso received the province of Macedonia (Cic. P. Red. in Sen. 10 and 18 and 32; P. Red. ad Quir. 11 and 13 and 21; Sest. 24-25 and 31 and 44 and 53-55 and 71; Pis. 28 and 37 and 56-57; Har. Resp. 58; Dom. 23-24 and 55 and 60 and 66 and 70 and 93; Prov. Cons. 2-8: Plut. Cic. 30.1; Auct. Vir. Ill. 81.4; Schol. Bob. 168 Stangl), while under another law Gabinius was assigned first Cilicia and then Syria (Cic. P. Red. in Sen. 10 and 18 and 32; P. Red. ad Quir. 11 and 13 and 2 1; Dom. 23 and 55 and 60 and 70 and 124; Sest. 24-25 and 44 and 53-55 and 67-73; Prov. Cons. 3-9 and 17; Pis. 28 and 31 and 37 and 49 and 56- 57; Rab. Post. 20; Plut. Cic. 30.1; App. Syr. 51; cf. Cic. Att. 3.22.1; Auct. Vir. Ill. 81.4; and on the exchange of Cilicia for Syria, Cic. Sest. 55; Dom. 23 and 70). Piso also took action against the Egyptian cults in Rome (Varro in Tertull. Apol. 6; Nat. 1.10; Arnob. 2.73), and removed an old sacellum (Cic. Har. Resp. 32) of Diana on the Caelian hill. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 57 Macedonia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Macedonia with unlimited imperium (Cic. Dom. 55) by Clodius' law (see 58, Tribunes of the Plebs; Choix 164- 1. de Delos 4.1.1737; Bloch, AJA 44 [1940] 485ff.; Cormack, AJA 48 [19441 76f.). He was (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 56 Macedonia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Macedonia (see 57, Promagistrates). It was decided this year to send him a successor in 55 (Cic. Prov. Cons., passim; Pia. 88-89 see 55, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 55 Macedonia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Macedonia (see 57, Promagistrates), whence he returned before late summer of this year. (Broughton MRR II)
    • 3 Cicero's In Pisonem was delivered shortly before the games at the dedication of Pompey's theater, at a time when the heat was still intense (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1, and 15-16 C; Val. Max 2.4.6). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 58. His career from aedileship to consulship advanced, like Cicero's, sine repulsa (Cic. Pis. 2). His quaestorship, aedileship, and praetorship may therefore be attributed to the normal years, 70, 64, and 61, resp. (TJC; on the intervals, see Badian, Studies 145-146). He was perhaps proconsul of Hisp. Cit. ca. 60-59 after his praetorship (Syme, Piso and Veranius in Catullus Class. & Med. 17, 1956, 129-134-RP.1.300-304), and so, perhaps, open to prosecution de repetundis by P. Clodius (still Claudius then) (Val. Max. 8.1.6; cf. Gruen, LGRR 529, and Athenaeum 49, 1971, 56), and was acquitted. See also Nicolet, et al., Insula Sacra 59-60. Consul 58. In MRR 2.193, refer also on Macedonia to Cic. Att. 3.1; and to ILLRP 423, 424. Procos. Macedonia 57-55. See MRR 2.207, 210, 218. Notices in Fast. Amitern. and Fast. Allifani date the dedication of Pompey's theater to August 12, 55 (MRR 2.214). As Cicero's in Pisonem was delivered only a few days before (Cic. Pis. 65; Ascon. 1C and 15-16C), this points to Piso's return about June. His complaint against Cicero in the Senate soon followed, and Cicero's reply by early August (B. A. Marshall, CQ 25, 1975, 88-93). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Censor 50 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Fam. 3.10.3 and 11, and 11, prescript, and 5, and 13.3; Tac. Ann. 6.10; Oros. 6.15.11. See Degrassi 132, 496f. Appius Claudius set about a partisan housecleaning, making inquiries into possession of works of art, landholding, debts (Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8.14.4; cf. Att. 6.9.5), and immoral practices (Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8. 12.1-2, and 14.4). Among many others, he expelled the historian Sallust from the Senate for immorality (Dio 40.63.4; cf. Ps.-Cic. Inv. in Sall. 16), and C. Atcius Capito for falsification of auspices (Cic. Div. 1.29). Piso was more moderate, protected Curio from his colleague (Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8. 17. 1; Plut. Pomp. 58.4; Dio 40.63-64); and at the beginning of 49 attempted to mediate the dispute with Caesar (Caes. BC 1.3.6; cf. Cic. Fam. 14.14.8; Att. 7.13.1; see 49, Legates, Envoys). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Envoy) 49 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • He and Roscius (see below) offered to go on a mission to Caesar between January 1 and 7, but were rejected (Caes. BC 1.3.6-4.5; cf. Plut. Pomp. 58.4). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Envoy) 43 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • In an attempt to arrange peace, the Senate, on the motion of Fulius Calenus, sent these three senior consulars as Envoys to Mark Antony to report the following terms: to cease his attack on Decimus Brutus and withdraw from Cisalpine Gaul (but stay more than 200 miles from Rome), to submit to the authority of the Senate and People, and to permit an interview with Decimus Brutus; if he failed to comply he should face a declaration of war (Cic. Phil. 6.4-5; 7.26; 9.1; 13.20; 14.20; Fam. 11. 8; 12.4. 1, and 24, and 26). Antony refused these terms and sent back with them a Legate (see below) bearing counter-proposals (Cic. Phil. 7.26; 8.1 and 15-17 and 20-28 and 32; 14.4; Fam. 12.4.1; App. BC 3.61-63; Dio 46.30). Servius Sulpicius died before reaching Antony and was honored with a public funeral and a statue (Cic. Phil. 9, passim; 8.22; 13.29; Fam. 10.28.3; 12.5.3; Jerome, Chr. ad ann. 44, p. 157 Helm; Pompon. Dig. 1.2.2.43). See D.-G. 1.181-184. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Envoy) 43 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • These five consulars, selected from all factions, were, appointed early in March to serve on a second embassy to Antony, but upon reconsideration Servilius and Cicero withdrew and the embassy was not sent (Cic. Phil. 12, passim, esp. 1-2 and 18, with the names, and 28; Dio 46.32.2-4; see D.-G. 1.201-205; H. Frisch, Cicero's Fight for the Republic 239-247). (Broughton MRR II)

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