Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

OCTA3018 M. Octavius (32) Cn. f.

Relationships

son of
? Cn. Octavius (18) Cn. f. Cn. n. (cos. 128) (Zmeskal 2009)
brother of
? Cn. Octavius (20) Cn. f. Cn. n. (cos. 87) (DPRR Team)
father of
? Cn. Octavius (22) M. f. Cn. n. (cos. 76) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Tribunus Plebis? 99 to 87 (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2) Expand
    • No title preserved but certainly a Tribune of the Plebs. Carried a Lex frumentaria which abrogated the Lex Sempronia (Cic. Brut. 222; Off. 2.72). Miinzer (RE) suggests a date before the law of Saturninus in 100, but Niccolini (FTP 426f.) holds that annulment of the laws of Saturninus and of Drusus brought the Sempronian law into force again, and the Octavius mentioned in Sallust (Hist. 1.62 M) is the Tribune of 133. He dates Octavius between 91 and 81. (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2)
    • See MRR 2.471. The precise date of his tribunate of the plebs and of his Lex frumentaria remains uncertain, but identification of him as son of Cn. Octavius (17). Cos. 128, and younger brother of Cn. Octavius (20). Cos. 87, strongly favors some year between the death of Saturninus and the death of his brother, hence between 99 and 87. See D. C. Earl, Latomus 19, 1960, 665; Sumner, Orators 114-116; J. G. Schovanek, Historia 21, 1972, 235-243. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)

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