CALP2951 L. (Calpurnius) (98?, Supb. 3.231) Piso Caesoninus?

Career

  • Praetor? before 90 (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2) Expand
    • A Praetor or Propraetor in Asia before 90, possibly before 100 B. C. (I. v. Priene 121, cf. p. 551; see Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor 2.1579). (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2)
    • Tr. pl.? 90? See MRR 2.33-34. Since Sisenna refers to him in Book III of his Histories (fr. 17P, cf. 119, 120P), his tribunate should be dated to 90, not to 89 as in MRR, and his law very probably precedes the Lex lulia in the autumn (see E. Gabba, Republican Rome: The Army and the Allies 90-91; P. Frassinetti, Athenaeum 50, 1972, 78-113, esp. 96). Syme (RS, MS-RP 1.277) questions his identification as a Piso Frugi and suggests that he was a Caesoninus (Cic. Pis. 87, for the cognomen), a son of the cos. of 112, and possibly not tribune but praetor in 90. If so, he might also be identified with L. Piso, a # in Asia in this period (MRR 2.463; I. Priene 121, cf. p. 551), whose activity Syme would date toward 83, not before 90, as in MRR; but see now Sumner, Governors of Asia in the Nineties B.C., GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153, who would date his governorship ca. 100 or ca. 97. If the tr. pl. of 90 was a Caesoninus he must in any case be distinguished from Frugi (98), the pr. of 74. See p. 28. (Broughton MRR III)
    • (MRR 2.465).Named in I. Priene 121, ll. 15-22, as governors of Asia to whom the honorand went as envoy, but the dates can be listed only as before 90, some perhaps even before 100. A second part of the inscription lists embassies to many cities, and a third includes one to King Seleucus, son of King Antiochus, to be dated either before his accession in 95 or else failing to recognize him as king. See Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153; cf. I. Priene 551. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Propraetor? before 90 Asia (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2) Expand
    • A Praetor or Propraetor in Asia before 90, possibly before 100 B. C. (I. v. Priene 121, cf. p. 551; see Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor 2.1579). (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2)
    • (MRR 2.465).Named in I. Priene 121, ll. 15-22, as governors of Asia to whom the honorand went as envoy, but the dates can be listed only as before 90, some perhaps even before 100. A second part of the inscription lists embassies to many cities, and a third includes one to King Seleucus, son of King Antiochus, to be dated either before his accession in 95 or else failing to recognize him as king. See Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153; cf. I. Priene 551. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Tribunus Plebis? c. 90 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Sisenna attributes to him a bill to add two new tribes (fr. 17 Peter; see below, on Papirius), and a measure to permit soldiers to receive citizenship as a reward for bravery (fr. 120 Peter). Minatius Magius (Vell. 2.16.3) may have received citizenship under this law (Rotondi 491). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Tr. pl.? 90? See MRR 2.33-34. Since Sisenna refers to him in Book III of his Histories (fr. 17P, cf. 119, 120P), his tribunate should be dated to 90, not to 89 as in MRR, and his law very probably precedes the Lex lulia in the autumn (see E. Gabba, Republican Rome: The Army and the Allies 90-91; P. Frassinetti, Athenaeum 50, 1972, 78-113, esp. 96). Syme (RS, MS-RP 1.277) questions his identification as a Piso Frugi and suggests that he was a Caesoninus (Cic. Pis. 87, for the cognomen), a son of the cos. of 112, and possibly not tribune but praetor in 90. If so, he might also be identified with L. Piso, a # in Asia in this period (MRR 2.463; I. Priene 121, cf. p. 551), whose activity Syme would date toward 83, not before 90, as in MRR; but see now Sumner, Governors of Asia in the Nineties B.C., GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153, who would date his governorship ca. 100 or ca. 97. If the tr. pl. of 90 was a Caesoninus he must in any case be distinguished from Frugi (98), the pr. of 74. See p. 28. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)