Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

ROSC2236 L. Roscius (22) Otho

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Career

• Tribunus Plebis 67 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Carried a law to reserve the fourteen rows in the theater for the knights (Cic. Corn. 1, fr. 52; Att. 2.19.3; Mur. 40; Phil. 2.44; Liv. Per. 99; Hor. Epod. 4.15-16, with Porphyr. ad loc.; Epist. 1.1.62; Vell. 2.32.3; Ascon. 78-79 C; Tac. Ann. 15.32; Iuven. 3.159, and Schol. ad loc.; 14.324; Suet. Aug. 40; Nero 11; Dom. 8; SHA, Hadr. 17; cf. Cic. Att. 2.1.3; Cum a lud. cont. avoc. fr. 1; Plin. NH 7.117; Plut. Cic. 13; Macrob. Sat. 3.14.12). Supported Trebellius against Gabinius (Dio 36.24.4, and 30.3). (Broughton MRR II)
  • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
• Praetor? 63 city? (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Was hissed in the theater for his tribunician bill reserving the fourteen rows for the knights (see 67, Tribunes of the Plebs), and championed by Cicero, the Consul. He was probably Praetor (Plut. Cic. 13, with the praenomen Marcus, cf. Fragments of Cicero's speech, ed. Müller, 4.3, p. 209; Macrob. Sat. 3.14.12). (Broughton MRR II)
  • p. 753, footnote 429 (Brennan 2000)

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