Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

MINU2466 L. Minucius (38) Vel.? Basilus = M. Satrius (1)

Status

  • Eques R? Expand

    Nicolet Ref 238. Cic. Off. 3.18.73. praetor 45

Relationships

son of
-. Satrius (A) (father of L. Minucius (38) Vel.? Basilus = M. Satrius (1) (pr. 45)) (RE)
? Minucia (69) (daughter of? L. Minucius (38) Vel.? Basilus = M. Satrius (1) (pr. 45)) (Zmeskal 2009)
adopted son of
L. Minucius (37) L. f. Vel. Basilus (tr. mil. 86) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. off. III 74

nephew of
? L. Minucius (37) L. f. Vel. Basilus (tr. mil. 86) (Nicolet 1974)
father of
? Minucia (69) (daughter of? L. Minucius (38) Vel.? Basilus = M. Satrius (1) (pr. 45)) (DPRR Team)
? L. Minucius (37) L. f. Vel. Basilus (tr. mil. 86) (DPRR Team)
? M. (Minucius) (39) Vel. Basilus (sen. 74) (Nicolet 1974)

Career

  • Quaestor? 55 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate in Gaul in 53, or possibly 54 (Cic. QF 3.1.21; see 53, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 53 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • A cavalry commander, probably a Legate, under Caesar in Gaul (BG 6.29-30). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 52 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Served under Caesar in Gaul, probably as a Legate (Caes. BG 7.90.5). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 51 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Caesar in Gaul (see 52, and 49, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
    • As he was not described specifically as a legatus when he was serving under Caesar in 53-51 (MRR 2.231, 239, 244), and there is no specific record of him from 51 until 49, when he is called legatus (MRR 2.268; cf. 253), Sumner suggests that he may have been quaestor in 55 or 54, or else in 50 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 359). He is definitely attested as praetor in 45 (Dio 43.45.5), and as one of Caesar's assassins. See below, on M. Satrius (1), and on another L. Minucius Basilus (Cic. 0,f: 3.143; Phil. 2.107). See Shackleton Bailey, Studies 53-54, and Onom. ; (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 50 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Caesar in Gaul (see 52, and 49, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
    • As he was not described specifically as a legatus when he was serving under Caesar in 53-51 (MRR 2.231, 239, 244), and there is no specific record of him from 51 until 49, when he is called legatus (MRR 2.268; cf. 253), Sumner suggests that he may have been quaestor in 55 or 54, or else in 50 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 359). He is definitely attested as praetor in 45 (Dio 43.45.5), and as one of Caesar's assassins. See below, on M. Satrius (1), and on another L. Minucius Basilus (Cic. 0,f: 3.143; Phil. 2.107). See Shackleton Bailey, Studies 53-54, and Onom. ; (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 49 Illyricum (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • He held command of a legion, probably as a Legate, and attempted to come to the relief of C. Antonius (Lucan 4.416, and Schol. Bern. pp. 134-136 Usener; Flor. 2.13.32; Oros. 6.15.8; see above, on C. Antonius). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 48 Macedonia, Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate of Caesar (Schol. Bern. on Lucan 6.126, p. 194 Usener, also Prefect of the camp). He distinguished himself at Dyrrachium (App. BC 2.60; cf. Caes. BC 3.64-68; Lucan 6.126), and probably returned to Italy after Pharsalus (Cic. Att. 11.5.3). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor 45 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • A Praeter of 45, to whom Caesar refused a province, but gave money instead (Dio 43.47.5). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 43 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • A Legate under C. Trebonius in Asia (Cic. Ad Brut. 1.6.3; see 44, Legates). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Leg., lieut. of Trebonius in Asia in 44-43 (Cic. Brut. 1.6.3; MRR 2.354). Report of the will of the wealthy L. Minucius Basilus (identified by Cichorius as L. Minucius L. f. Vel. in the consilium of Pompeius Strabo in 89, RS 175ff.; cf. Criniti, L'Epigrafe di Asculum 167-169), in which he adopted his nephew M. Satrius (Cic. Verr. 1.115ff:; Off. 3.73-74; Val. Max. 9.4.1), led Syme to identify Satrius with the L. Minucius Basilus (38) who was an officer under Caesar, 53-48, and praetor in 45 (MRR 2.230, 239, 268, 282, 307), and one of Caesar's assassins (App. BC 2.113; Cic. Fam. 6.15?). See Syme, Historia 13, 1964, 131-RP 2.599-600. Shackleton Bailey has shown how frequently in the late Republic the original name continued to be used after adoption (Studies 101ff.), but is reversion to it in this case after regular use of the adoptive name over a considerable period so probable? Possibly this Satrius was not a Minucius Basilus at all. (TJC) Shackleton Bailey (Studies 33-34) would distinguish also between a L. Minucius Basilus, adoptee, patron of Picene and Sabine land (Cic. Off. 3.73), also referred to as a disturber of Puteoli and Sidicinum and associate of Mark Antony in 44 (Cic. Phil. 2.107), and the L. Minucius Basilus who was an officer under Caesar, praetor in 45, and one of Caesar's assassins. How could Antony in 44 continue to associate with the latter? The relation of either with M. Satrius, above, remains obscure. (Broughton MRR III)

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