Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

AUFI2319 M. Aufidius? (25, cf. 27) Lurco

Relationships

uncle of
C. Sextilius (7) (nephew of M. Aufidius? (25, cf. 27) Lurco (tr. pl. 61)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Flacc. 89

Career

  • Tribunus Plebis 61 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • He proposed, but did not carry, a bribery law (Cic. Att. 1.16.13, cf. 18.3). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Tr. pl. 61. The author in 61 of the bribery law which failed of passage (MRR 2.179), known only from Cicero by the rare cognomen Lurco, may readily be identified with the M. Lurco who had gone to Asia on a legatio libera, and was therefore a senator, and who testified against L. Valerius Flaccus at his trial (Cic. Flacc. 89). He very probably was the M. Aufidius Lurco ,whom Suetonius declares to be on public record as holder of magistracies in Rome (Cal. 23.2). He may also be the well-known contemporary gourmet (for details, see J. Linderski, below). His name should be removed from the entry about the aedile of 52 (MRR 2.235) since it is based on Willems' emendation of Plut. Cat. Min. 46.4. It is necessary to distinguish clearly between this and other Aufidii and M. Alfidius, the maternal grandfather of Livia, a municipal magistrate of Fundi, who is not known to have held magistracies in Rome, and whom Suetonius confused with Lurco (Cal. 23.2; cf. Tib. 5). See J. Linderski, Historia 23, 1974, 463-480; Shackleton Bailey, CLA 1.323. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)

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