MEMM2261 C. Memmius (8)

Life Dates

  • 99?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R200.

  • 52, exiled (Kelly 2006) Expand

    Kelly no. 43.

  • 52, expelled from Senate (Alexander 1990) Expand

    Alexander TLRR no. 320, cf no. 298 (condemned, hence expelled, under lex (Pompeia?) de ambitu in relation to consular campaign of 54 for 53..

  • 50?, restored (Kelly 2006) Expand

    Restored? Kelly no. 43.

Relationships

son of
? L. Memmius (14) L. f. Gal. (tr. pl. 89) (Zmeskal 2009)
brother of
? Memmia (38) (daughter of L. Memmius (14) L. f. Gal. (tr. pl. 89)) (DPRR Team)
married to
? Cornelia (436) = Fausta Cornelia (daughter of L. Cornelius (392) L. f. P. n. Sulla Felix ('Epaphroditus') (cos. 88)) (DPRR Team)
divorced from
Cornelia (436) = Fausta Cornelia (daughter of L. Cornelius (392) L. f. P. n. Sulla Felix ('Epaphroditus') (cos. 88)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Scaur. 28C

father of
C. Memmius (10) C. f. L. n. (cos. suff. 34) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Ascon. Scaur. 28C

Career

  • Tribunus Plebis 66 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Prosecuted M. Lucullus unsuccessfully for his acts while Quaestor under Sulla, and excited the people against L. Lucullus and delayed the decreeing of his triumph (Plut. Luc. 37.1-2; Cat. Min. 29.3, cf. 6.2; see Cic. Acad. 2.3). (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
  • Praetor 58 Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. QF 1.2.16. With Domitius (see above) he began an attack on Caesar's acta. Attempted to prosecute Vatinius for violation of the Lex Iunia Licinia (Cic. Vat. 33; Schol. Bob. 150 Stangl). (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 754, footnote 451 (Brennan 2000)
  • Promagistrate 57 Bithynia, Pontus (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Governor of Bithynia and Pontus, title not preserved, with Catull. as and Cinna on his staff (Catull. 10 and 28; cf. 4 and 46). Celebrated as Imperator on coins of his son ca. 51 (Grueber, CRRBM 1.495f.). (Broughton MRR II)