Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

MUNA2450 L. Munatius (30) L. f. L. n. Cam.? Plancus

Life Dates

  • 89?, birth (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

son of
L. Munatius (29) Plancus (father of L. Munatius (30) Plancus (cos. 42)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Att. XVI 16A.3, Cic. fam. X 5.1, Cic. fam. XIII 29.1

brother of
L. Plautius (Plotius) (10, cf. Munatius 26) Plancus (pr.? 43) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Vell. II 67.3, Vell. II 67.4

Munatia (41) (daughter of? L. Munatius (29) Plancus) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Vell. II 83.1f.

T. Munatius (32) Cam.? Plancus Bursa (tr. pl. 52) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Milon. 32C

C. Munatius (26) Plancus (son of? L. Munatius (29) Plancus) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

App. b.c. IV 12 (46), Dio LIV 2.1, Plin. n.h. XIII 25, Val. Max. VI 8.5, Vell. II 67.3

Career

  • Quaestor before 54 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 42. Since he was a legate of Caesar in 54 (MRR 2.226), he presumably had held the quaestorship by 55. He appears again in 49 in command of the legiones Fabianae in Spain (Caes. BC 1.40.5; MRR 2.268), and again as a legatus under Caesar in Africa (Bell. Afr. 4.1; cf. Cic. Fam. 13.29). He was one of Caesar's appointees as praefectus urbi in 45 (MRR 2.313; A. Alföldi, Mel. Seston 1-13; and on his coins, see Crawford, RRC 1.485, no. 475). If he was praetor at all (his praetorship is unattested), he held the office before the end of 45, as he was proconsul in Cisalpine Gaul in 44 (MRR 2.329) and consul in 42 (Sumner, Phoenix 25, 1971, 360). Sumner suggests that he may have been one of the three-month praetors of 47 (ibid. 359-360), a suitable point for it in his known career. Procos. in Gallia Comata 44-43. In MRR 2.348, on the founding of Lugdunum (October 11, 43), see P. Wuilleumier, Fouilles de Fourviere; and Lyon, Metropole des Gaules 12ff., citing the works of A. Audin. T. Munatius Plancus Bursa (32), tr. Pl. 52, termed frater in Ascon. 32C, may have been a cousin (Shackleton Bailey, Onom.; see Gnomon 56, 1984, 179, note 1).[146] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 54 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Caesar in Gaul (Caes. BG 5.24.3, and 25.4). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 53 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Caesar in Gaul (see 54, 52, and 51, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 52 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Caesar in Gaul (see 54, and 49, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 51 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Caesar in Gaul (see 54, and 49, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 50 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Caesar in Gaul (see 52, and 49, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 49 Hispania (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • A Legate of Caesar (see 52, Legates), and served with C. Fabius in Spain (Caes. BC 1.40.5). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 48 Hispania (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate of Caesar. See 49, and 46, Legates. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 47 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate of Caesar in the Mrican campaign (Bell. Afr. 4.1; see 46, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 46 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • A Legate under Caesar in Africa (Bell. Afr. 4-5; cf. Cic. Fam. 13.2g). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praefectus Urbi 45 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Grueber, CRRBM 1.537f., dated to Caesar's third consulship. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Epulo 45 to after 31 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Probably a member of this college of priests by 45 (Grueber, CRRBM 1.537f., the symbols of the priesthood on coins of that year; cf. ILS 886). See PIR² 2.390, no. 534; De Laet no. 251. (Broughton MRR II)
    • A probable member of this college of priests about 31 B. C. In a number of instances the exact date when a priest became a member of his college is not known, and the conjecture is based on evidence of seniority such as the date of the consulship or some other office. The list of the Quindecimviri is based on Miss Hoffman's observation that the names listed in connection with the Saecular Games in 17 B. C. are arranged in the order of entrance into the college (see AJPh 73 [19521289-294). The names given below are drawn from Miss Hoffman's dissertation, The Membership of the Four Major Colleges of Priests from 44 B. C. to 37 A. D. (Bryn Mawr, 1951, available in microfilm). (Broughton MRR II)
    • See 45, Septemviri Epulones. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor? before 44 Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Prefect of the city (see below), and probably Praetor, since he was a Legate in 46, and became Proconsul of Transalpine Gaul in 44 (see 46, Legates, and 44, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 42. Since he was a legate of Caesar in 54 (MRR 2.226), he presumably had held the quaestorship by 55. He appears again in 49 in command of the legiones Fabianae in Spain (Caes. BC 1.40.5; MRR 2.268), and again as a legatus under Caesar in Africa (Bell. Afr. 4.1; cf. Cic. Fam. 13.29). He was one of Caesar's appointees as praefectus urbi in 45 (MRR 2.313; A. Alföldi, Mel. Seston 1-13; and on his coins, see Crawford, RRC 1.485, no. 475). If he was praetor at all (his praetorship is unattested), he held the office before the end of 45, as he was proconsul in Cisalpine Gaul in 44 (MRR 2.329) and consul in 42 (Sumner, Phoenix 25, 1971, 360). Sumner suggests that he may have been one of the three-month praetors of 47 (ibid. 359-360), a suitable point for it in his known career. Procos. in Gallia Comata 44-43. In MRR 2.348, on the founding of Lugdunum (October 11, 43), see P. Wuilleumier, Fouilles de Fourviere; and Lyon, Metropole des Gaules 12ff., citing the works of A. Audin. T. Munatius Plancus Bursa (32), tr. Pl. 52, termed frater in Ascon. 32C, may have been a cousin (Shackleton Bailey, Onom.; see Gnomon 56, 1984, 179, note 1).[146] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Moneyer 45 (RRC) Expand
    • ref. 475 (RRC)
  • Proconsul 44 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul of Transalpine Gaul (excepting Narbonensis) by Caesar's appointment (Cic. Phil. 3.38; cf. Act. Tr. for 43, Degrassi 86f., 567). He was still in Rome on the Ides of March and supported the declaration of amnesty for the Liberators (Plut. Brut. 19.1). He soon departed for his province (cf. Cic. Att. 15.29. 1, dated July 6; Nic. Dam. Vit. Caes. 28, FGrH 2A.414), and there added new levies to the three legions with which, while watching developments in Italy (Cic. Fam. 10.1-5), he made an expedition into Ractia and was acclaimed Imperator (Cic. Phil. 3.38, cf. Act. Pr., Degrassi 86f., 567; CIL 6.1316ILS 41; 10.6087-ILS 886; Vell. 2.67.4). He is named on bronze coins in Gaul (see M. Grant, From Imperium to Auctoritas, 392; Tourneur, Antiquité Classique 17 [1948] 553-558.) (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 42. Since he was a legate of Caesar in 54 (MRR 2.226), he presumably had held the quaestorship by 55. He appears again in 49 in command of the legiones Fabianae in Spain (Caes. BC 1.40.5; MRR 2.268), and again as a legatus under Caesar in Africa (Bell. Afr. 4.1; cf. Cic. Fam. 13.29). He was one of Caesar's appointees as praefectus urbi in 45 (MRR 2.313; A. Alföldi, Mel. Seston 1-13; and on his coins, see Crawford, RRC 1.485, no. 475). If he was praetor at all (his praetorship is unattested), he held the office before the end of 45, as he was proconsul in Cisalpine Gaul in 44 (MRR 2.329) and consul in 42 (Sumner, Phoenix 25, 1971, 360). Sumner suggests that he may have been one of the three-month praetors of 47 (ibid. 359-360), a suitable point for it in his known career. Procos. in Gallia Comata 44-43. In MRR 2.348, on the founding of Lugdunum (October 11, 43), see P. Wuilleumier, Fouilles de Fourviere; and Lyon, Metropole des Gaules 12ff., citing the works of A. Audin. T. Munatius Plancus Bursa (32), tr. Pl. 52, termed frater in Ascon. 32C, may have been a cousin (Shackleton Bailey, Onom.; see Gnomon 56, 1984, 179, note 1).[146] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Triumphator 43 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph ex Gallia. MRR II.347-8, Itgenshorst no. 270, Rich no. 271. (Rich 2014)
  • Proconsul 43 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Transalpine Gaul. (see 44, Promagistrates; Imp. Cos. Desig. in the prescripts to Cic. Fam. 10.8, and 24; cf. Phil. 5.5). In constant communication with Cicero, to whom he made frequent professions of loyalty, though he joined with Lepidus in March in advocating a peaceful settlement of the dispute with Antony (Cic. Fam. 10.6-24, passim, esp. 10.6), he also remained in communication with Antony (Cic. Phil. 13.44, Antony's claim; and cf. for an estimate of him, Fam. 10.3.3, and 11.9.2). He was urged by decree of the Senate to bring aid to Italy, and crossed the Rhone on April 26, and upon hearing of the battles at Mutina remained in touch with Lepidus, at whose invitation he moved southward across the Isara on May 18, but retreated when the latter united his forces with those of Antony (Cic. Fam. 10.9-23, esp. 10.11.2, and 15.18, and 21, and 23). Decimus Brutus joined him on June 7 (see above), but in the course of the summer he was reconciled by Pollio to Antony and Lepidus, surrendered his legions to them and his command to Antony (see Legates, on Varius Cotyla), while Brutus took to flight (Cic. Fam. 10.23, and 24; Liv. Per. 120; Vell. 2.63.3; Plut. Ant. 18.4; App. BC 3.97; Dio (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 42. Since he was a legate of Caesar in 54 (MRR 2.226), he presumably had held the quaestorship by 55. He appears again in 49 in command of the legiones Fabianae in Spain (Caes. BC 1.40.5; MRR 2.268), and again as a legatus under Caesar in Africa (Bell. Afr. 4.1; cf. Cic. Fam. 13.29). He was one of Caesar's appointees as praefectus urbi in 45 (MRR 2.313; A. Alföldi, Mel. Seston 1-13; and on his coins, see Crawford, RRC 1.485, no. 475). If he was praetor at all (his praetorship is unattested), he held the office before the end of 45, as he was proconsul in Cisalpine Gaul in 44 (MRR 2.329) and consul in 42 (Sumner, Phoenix 25, 1971, 360). Sumner suggests that he may have been one of the three-month praetors of 47 (ibid. 359-360), a suitable point for it in his known career. Procos. in Gallia Comata 44-43. In MRR 2.348, on the founding of Lugdunum (October 11, 43), see P. Wuilleumier, Fouilles de Fourviere; and Lyon, Metropole des Gaules 12ff., citing the works of A. Audin. T. Munatius Plancus Bursa (32), tr. Pl. 52, termed frater in Ascon. 32C, may have been a cousin (Shackleton Bailey, Onom.; see Gnomon 56, 1984, 179, note 1).[146] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Consul 42 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Bull. Com. 68 (1940) 200. no. 2; Fast. Amit., Degrassi 170f.; Fad. Amer., ibid. 242; Fast. Colot., ibid. 273f., Fast. Mag. Vic.; ibid. 282f.; and see also ibid. 135 and 504f.; Vell. 2.67.3-4; Plin. NH 2.99; Suet. Tib. 5; Dio 47, Index, and 16.1; Obseq. 70; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Zonar. 10. 18; on Lepidus, App. BC 4.3; on Plancus, as Cos. Desig., Cic. Fam. 10.6.1 and 3; 10.8, prescript, and 20.2; 11.15.1; Phil. 3.38; Vell. 2.63.3; Dio 46.53.1; and as Cos., CIL 6.1316-ILS 41; 10.6087-ILS 886; App. BC 4.37, and 45. The Consuls carried a law regardina Lyrants of citizenship and immunity (Inscription of Rhosos, Font. Iur. Rom. Anteiustinian. ed. Riccobono, et al., 1.308ff., no. 55, line 10); and Plancus, besides saving some of the proscribed (App. BC 4.37, and 45), began to distribute land to soldiers at Beneventum. (CIL 10.6087-ILS 886)" office-xref=". On Lepidus, see Triumviri R.P.C. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 41 Campania, Umbria (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Probably Proconsul, but no title is preserved. He was colonizing veterans in the vicinity of Beneventum (CIL 10.6087-ILS 886; of. App. BC 4.3), and at Fulvia's urging advanced to aid Lucius Antony in the Perusine war. He defeated one of Octavian's legions, but retreated to Spoletium (App. BC 5.33; cf. Vell. 2.74.2). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Moneyer 40 (RRC) Expand
    • ref. 522 (RRC)
  • Proconsul 40 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Early in 40 his advice prevented further attempts to relieve Lucius Antonius in Perusia (App. BC 5.35; cf. Vell. 2.74.3). After the war he fled with Fulvia to Greece (App. BC 5.50; Vell. 2.76.2; about March), and returned with Antony (App. BC 5.55, about September) to Italy. He was probably sent to Asia as Proconsul (Grueber, CRRBM 2.496f.; cf. a # at Mylasa, BCH 12 [1888] 15, no. 4) after the peace of Brundisium, when Domitius was sent to Bithynia, and Ventidius to Asia and Syria against the Parthians (see M Te, Roman Rule in Asia Minor 2.1280, note 9, who places him in Asia in the summer of 40. He probably took command in Asia as the Parthians retreated). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 39 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Probably Proconsul in Asia (see Grueber, CRRBM 2.496f.; cf. BCH 12 [1888] 15, no. 4). See 40, Promagistrates; PIR 2.390, no. 534; De Laet no. 251. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 38 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • If his governorship is rightly dated after the Parthian invasion, he probably remained this year as Proconsul in Asia (see 39, Promagistrates; above, on Cocceius Nerva). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 35 Syria (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • No title preserved. Governor of Syria under Antony (note the title Legatus in Liv. Per. 131), who was blamed for giving the order in Antony's name for the death of Sextus Pompey (App. BC 5.144; cf. Vell. 2.83.2, for the suggestion that he was guilty of extortion). See PIR 2.390, no. 534; De Laet no. 251. (Broughton MRR II)

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