Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

COSC2348 C. Cosconius (5) C. f.

Life Dates

  • 47, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    Murdered in mutiny.

Relationships

son of
? C. Cosconius (3) (pr. 89) (Brennan 2000)

Career

  • Tribunus Plebis 59 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Vat. 16. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
  • Aedilis Plebis 57 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Vat. 16. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor c. 54 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • An ex-Praetor when killed by Caesar's mutinous troops in 47, so 48 is the latest date for his praetorship, though 54 is more probable (Plut. Caes. 51; cf. Dio 42.52.2). See 54, Praetors; and 53, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. 54? and Procos. Macedonia ca. 53-51. See MRR 2.230, 233, note 1. The inscription in question is published in IG II(2) 4106 (MRR 2.230, and 233, note 1). Groag (Råm. Reichsbeamten von Achaia 14) dates it later than the Republic, and Oliver (AJPh 68, 1947, 151-152, and note; 69, 1948, 435) would place both it and the Marcellus inscription with which Broneer associates it in the Julio-Claudian period. (RS, CP) Badian (Gnomon 33, 1961, 496) finds 53-52 a probable date, and 53 or 52-51 is accepted by F. Papazoglou, ANRW 2.7.1, 1979, 311. Cosconius may still be identified with the ex-praetor who was killed in 47 (see MRR 2.273). Sumner agrees with 54 as a date for his praetorship, and would remove his name from the list of possible praetors for 48 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 231). (Broughton MRR III)
    • See 53, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 755, footnote 479 (Brennan 2000)
  • Proconsul 53 Macedonia? (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 1 A broken inscription, found in Athens (Arch. Delt. 1889, 133, no. 13) records honors for a Proconsul whose name and title appear as #[# or 3 letters] #. The inscription has been variously dated, but recently Broneer (AJA 36 [1932] 394f.) has with great probability placed it in the middle of the first century B. C. Lolling in the original publication supplied the name Paconius. Broneer associates it with a certain C. Horconius or Orconius, who was honored at Delphi, but without titles, in an inscription of this general period (Colin, Fouilles de Delphes 3.4, p. 70, no. 46). Both these names and others suggested by Broneer, such as Holconius (loc. cit.), suffer from the objection that no persons of these names were at all prominent in office under the Roman Republic, so far as we know, or were likely to have advanced as far as the proconsulate of Macedonia. 1 wish to suggest the name of C. Cosconius, who was an Aedile of the Plebs in 57 and belonged to a praetorian family (see Index). The normal course of his career would have brought him to the praetorship about 54 and made him eligible for a provincial command about 53, precisely the year in this period in which there is a gap in the known list of governors of Macedonia. Probably the praetorius who was killed by Caesar's mutinous troops in 47 (see 48, Praetors). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Proconsul in the two Gallic provinces and Illyricum under the Lex Pompeia Licinia (see 55, Consuls). During 53 Caesar was occupied in crushing the revolt in northern Gaul, particularly among the Treviri and the Eburones, and made a second demonstration in force across the Rhine (Caes. BG 6; 8.24.4, and 25. 1; Liv. Per. 107; Flor. 1.45.14-15; 2.30.2; Dio 40.17.2, and 31.2-32.5; Oros. 6.10.12-21; cf. Cic. Fam. 7.13.2; and fr. in Charisius, GLK 1.126). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. 54? and Procos. Macedonia ca. 53-51. See MRR 2.230, 233, note 1. The inscription in question is published in IG II(2) 4106 (MRR 2.230, and 233, note 1). Groag (Råm. Reichsbeamten von Achaia 14) dates it later than the Republic, and Oliver (AJPh 68, 1947, 151-152, and note; 69, 1948, 435) would place both it and the Marcellus inscription with which Broneer associates it in the Julio-Claudian period. (RS, CP) Badian (Gnomon 33, 1961, 496) finds 53-52 a probable date, and 53 or 52-51 is accepted by F. Papazoglou, ANRW 2.7.1, 1979, 311. Cosconius may still be identified with the ex-praetor who was killed in 47 (see MRR 2.273). Sumner agrees with 54 as a date for his praetorship, and would remove his name from the list of possible praetors for 48 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 231). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 52 Macedonia? (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Pr. 54? and Procos. Macedonia ca. 53-51. See MRR 2.230, 233, note 1. The inscription in question is published in IG II(2) 4106 (MRR 2.230, and 233, note 1). Groag (Råm. Reichsbeamten von Achaia 14) dates it later than the Republic, and Oliver (AJPh 68, 1947, 151-152, and note; 69, 1948, 435) would place both it and the Marcellus inscription with which Broneer associates it in the Julio-Claudian period. (RS, CP) Badian (Gnomon 33, 1961, 496) finds 53-52 a probable date, and 53 or 52-51 is accepted by F. Papazoglou, ANRW 2.7.1, 1979, 311. Cosconius may still be identified with the ex-praetor who was killed in 47 (see MRR 2.273). Sumner agrees with 54 as a date for his praetorship, and would remove his name from the list of possible praetors for 48 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 231). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 51 Macedonia? (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Pr. 54? and Procos. Macedonia ca. 53-51. See MRR 2.230, 233, note 1. The inscription in question is published in IG II(2) 4106 (MRR 2.230, and 233, note 1). Groag (Råm. Reichsbeamten von Achaia 14) dates it later than the Republic, and Oliver (AJPh 68, 1947, 151-152, and note; 69, 1948, 435) would place both it and the Marcellus inscription with which Broneer associates it in the Julio-Claudian period. (RS, CP) Badian (Gnomon 33, 1961, 496) finds 53-52 a probable date, and 53 or 52-51 is accepted by F. Papazoglou, ANRW 2.7.1, 1979, 311. Cosconius may still be identified with the ex-praetor who was killed in 47 (see MRR 2.273). Sumner agrees with 54 as a date for his praetorship, and would remove his name from the list of possible praetors for 48 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 231). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor before 47 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 2 He held an aedileship in 57. (Broughton MRR II)
    • An ex-Praetor when killed by Caesar's mutinous troops in 47, so 48 is the latest date for his praetorship, though 54 is more probable (Plut. Caes. 51; cf. Dio 42.52.2). See 54, Praetors; and 53, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Pr. 54? and Procos. Macedonia ca. 53-51. See MRR 2.230, 233, note 1. The inscription in question is published in IG II(2) 4106 (MRR 2.230, and 233, note 1). Groag (Råm. Reichsbeamten von Achaia 14) dates it later than the Republic, and Oliver (AJPh 68, 1947, 151-152, and note; 69, 1948, 435) would place both it and the Marcellus inscription with which Broneer associates it in the Julio-Claudian period. (RS, CP) Badian (Gnomon 33, 1961, 496) finds 53-52 a probable date, and 53 or 52-51 is accepted by F. Papazoglou, ANRW 2.7.1, 1979, 311. Cosconius may still be identified with the ex-praetor who was killed in 47 (see MRR 2.273). Sumner agrees with 54 as a date for his praetorship, and would remove his name from the list of possible praetors for 48 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 231). (Broughton MRR III)

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