Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

FURI0338 M. Furius (60) Fusus

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Liv. 9.34.6 (all censors between lex Aemilia and 310 "nobilissimi... viri")

Life Dates

  • 450?, birth (Rüpke 2005)

Career

  • Tribunus Militum Consulari Potestate 403 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap. preserves the following names: [- - - - -]ius Mam. f. M. n. M[amerc]in. II; [- - - Clau]dius P. f. Ap. n. [Crass]us; [- - Qui]nctilius L. f. L. n. [Var]us; M. Fur[ius-f.-n.] Fusus; L. Iuli[us Sp. f. Vopisci n.] Iulus; Val. entire, numeral III. Chr. 354 has Mamertino et Fuso. Fast. Cap. and Diod. indicate only six (Diod. lists five) Military Tribunes, while Livy mentions eight. In his list five names agree with those in the other sources, but he has M. Postumius for Furius Fusus, and his final two, Camillus and Postumius Albinus, appear in Fast. Cap., Val. Max. and Plutarch as Censors. Livy or his source has probably incorporated the Censors of this year in the list of Military Tribunes. Belcoh thinks that they were Military Tribunes with censorial powers (RG 77ff.). Substitution of M. Postumius for M. Furius is probably only a slip (RE, no. 60). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 5.1.2; Diod. 14.35.1; Fast. Cap., note 1; Chr. 354; Degrassi 28f., 98, 380f. Claudius remained in charge at Rome while the rest were serving against Veii (Liv. 5.2.13-7.1). On Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 35, no. 4. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Augur? after 391 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • The preserved portion of the name suggests that the new priest was a Furius Fusus, since Fusus is the only patrician cognomen that meets the requirements, if FV was correctly read by Hülsen. The Mil. Tr. c. p. of 403 is a possible candidate. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Furius Fusus succeeded Servilius. ILS 9338, 2.- CIL 6.37161. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Pontifex? after 391 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The preserved portion of the name suggests that the new priest was a Furius Fusus, since Fusus is the only patrician cognomen that meets the requirements, if FV was correctly read by Hülsen. The Mil. Tr. c. p. of 403 is a possible candidate. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Furius Fusus succeeded Servilius. ILS 9338, 2.- CIL 6.37161. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor? 389 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • This censorship is very doubtful. In its favor are the two names, not included in Livy's list of Military Tribunes, which remain in the tradition of Diodorus, and the fact that the addition of four new tribes from the land of Veii in 387 required the exercise of censorial powers. These however might have been exercised by the magistrates in office. Our authorities name no Censors, and these two men remain obscure. In the case of the Censors in 403 the two additional names in Livy appeared with their proper title in Fast. Cap. Here the relevant portion of Fast. Cap. is lost, but Degrassi's supplements, as he notes (101), still leave four lines unfilled. See also Beloch, RG 78f.; Cram, HSCPh 51 (1940) 76f. If there were Censors this year, L. Papirius Cursor, Mil. Tr. c. p. 387, 385, is also a possible candidate. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Diod. 15.22.1; cf. Liv. 6.5.8; see 385, note 1; and 380, Mil. Tr. c. p. (Broughton MRR I)

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