CAES2180 M. Caesonius (1)

Career

  • Aedilis Plebis 69 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 5 Mommsen (Str. 1.443, note 2; 2.518-522; RF 1.100) and Seidel (FA) supposed that Cicero and his colleague Caesonius were Curule Aediles. The games however that Cicero gave were dedicated to Ceres, Liber and Libera, and to Flora (Verr. 2.5.36-37). He never refers to himself as Curule Aedile, or records giving the Megalesian games. The primi Romani ludi of Verr. 2.5.36-37 were probably not the Ludi Romani but the Ludi Plebeii. On the whole question, see L. R. Taylor, AJPh 60 (1939) 200, note 25. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Verr. 1.29; Ps.-Ascon. 216 Stangl; Schol. Gron. 351 Stangl. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor 66 (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • 2 As in the list of Praetors given in 67, only eight of the nine listed above can have held the praetorship in 66. None can be later; three, Caesonius, Cornificius, and Sulpicius Galba, may be earlier, while the date of Varinius depends upon the correct order of the governors of Asia. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cicero's colleague in the aedileship (see 69, Aediles), and a possible competitor for the consulship of 63 (Cic. Att. 1.1.1). (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 749, footnote 326 (Brennan 2000)