Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

TREM3401 Cn. Tremellius (cf. 5) Cam.? Scrofa

Status

  • Eques R? Expand

    Nicolet Ref 359. Cic. 1 Verr. 30. iudex in 70, tr. mil. 69

Life Dates

  • 101?, birth (Broughton MRR I)

Career

  • Quaestor 71 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Served under Crassus against Spartacus, and was defeated and wounded at Petelia (Plut. Crass. 11.4). (Broughton MRR II)
    • All were Senators in 70, and presumably, like Tremellius, quaestorii, when elected senior Tribunes of the Soldiers for 69 (Cic. Verr. 1.30). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Münzer, in the belief that Varro did not avoid inconsistencies between the dramatic dates of the dialogues in Books I and II of the De Re Rustica (ca. January 56 for I, and 67 for II) and the career of the interlocutor Cn. Tremellius Scrofa, almost certainly combined, as P. A. Brunt and G. Perl have shown, the careers of two different individuals under the same name and number in RE (see Münzer, RE, and Hermes 61, 1926, 272-277; Brunt, CR 22, 1972, 304-308; Perl, AJAR 5, 1980, 97-109). The first and senior one, named above, was the agricultural authority, interlocutor in Books I and II, who claims to be the seventh of his gens to have attained the praetorship (2.4.2), and was a grandson of the Tremellius (see no. 6, below) who was quaestor under Licinius Nerva (130) in Macedonia in 143 or 142 (MRR 1.472), was the first to have the cognomen Scrofa (RR 2.4.1-2; Liv. Per. 53; Eutrop. 4.15; cf. Macrob. Sat. 1.6.30), and was a son of an otherwise unknown praetor (L. or Cn.?) of shortly before 100. He is described as follows in a group which contained Varro himself: et aetate et honore et scientia quod praestas (RR 1.3.1), and so was older and had attained office before Varro. He may have been born between 120 and 114, and have attained the quaestorship and the praetorship before him, quaestor ca. 87, as Perl conjectures, and praetor ca. 77, or perhaps 72, dates which would allow his command in Transalpine Gaul to be dated either before or after M. Fonteius (12), where there are gaps in the record (RR 1.7.8, In Gallia Transalpina intus, ad Rhenum cum exercitum ducerem; see Badian, Mel. Piganiol 901-913 for known governors and their dates; cf. Brunt, loc. Cit., and Perl, loc. Cit., above). His place with Varro on the board of XXviri under Caesar’s agrarian law is well attested (RR 1.2.10; cf. MRR 2.192). The dates on this record still admit that he could have been a magister of C. Lucilius Hirrus, Tr. Pl. 53, in his youth (RR 2.1.2). The second and younger Cn. Tremellius Scrofa (born ca. 101) was a quaestor under Crassus in 71 (Plut. Crass. 11.4, #), juror, and therefore a senator, in the trial of Verres in 70, and at that time a MRR3 military tribune elect for 69 ( Verr. 1.30; cf. MRR 2.133). The date of his praetorship remains uncertain, perhaps ca. 60 or the early 50s, if he held a proconsulate in 51-50 (Cic. Att. 5.4.2; 6.1.13; cf. 7.8.1), which Shackleton Bailey suggests was Crete and Cyrene because it was so insignificant and gave so little opportunity (CLA 3.246). This is denied by Perl because he was so much in Rome, but mention in Att. 6.1.13 with other governors is strongly in favor of a provincial command. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Iudex 70 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Münzer, in the belief that Varro did not avoid inconsistencies between the dramatic dates of the dialogues in Books I and II of the De Re Rustica (ca. January 56 for I, and 67 for II) and the career of the interlocutor Cn. Tremellius Scrofa, almost certainly combined, as P. A. Brunt and G. Perl have shown, the careers of two different individuals under the same name and number in RE (see Münzer, RE, and Hermes 61, 1926, 272-277; Brunt, CR 22, 1972, 304-308; Perl, AJAR 5, 1980, 97-109). The first and senior one, named above, was the agricultural authority, interlocutor in Books I and II, who claims to be the seventh of his gens to have attained the praetorship (2.4.2), and was a grandson of the Tremellius (see no. 6, below) who was quaestor under Licinius Nerva (130) in Macedonia in 143 or 142 (MRR 1.472), was the first to have the cognomen Scrofa (RR 2.4.1-2; Liv. Per. 53; Eutrop. 4.15; cf. Macrob. Sat. 1.6.30), and was a son of an otherwise unknown praetor (L. or Cn.?) of shortly before 100. He is described as follows in a group which contained Varro himself: et aetate et honore et scientia quod praestas (RR 1.3.1), and so was older and had attained office before Varro. He may have been born between 120 and 114, and have attained the quaestorship and the praetorship before him, quaestor ca. 87, as Perl conjectures, and praetor ca. 77, or perhaps 72, dates which would allow his command in Transalpine Gaul to be dated either before or after M. Fonteius (12), where there are gaps in the record (RR 1.7.8, In Gallia Transalpina intus, ad Rhenum cum exercitum ducerem; see Badian, Mel. Piganiol 901-913 for known governors and their dates; cf. Brunt, loc. Cit., and Perl, loc. Cit., above). His place with Varro on the board of XXviri under Caesar’s agrarian law is well attested (RR 1.2.10; cf. MRR 2.192). The dates on this record still admit that he could have been a magister of C. Lucilius Hirrus, Tr. Pl. 53, in his youth (RR 2.1.2). The second and younger Cn. Tremellius Scrofa (born ca. 101) was a quaestor under Crassus in 71 (Plut. Crass. 11.4, #), juror, and therefore a senator, in the trial of Verres in 70, and at that time a MRR3 military tribune elect for 69 ( Verr. 1.30; cf. MRR 2.133). The date of his praetorship remains uncertain, perhaps ca. 60 or the early 50s, if he held a proconsulate in 51-50 (Cic. Att. 5.4.2; 6.1.13; cf. 7.8.1), which Shackleton Bailey suggests was Crete and Cyrene because it was so insignificant and gave so little opportunity (CLA 3.246). This is denied by Perl because he was so much in Rome, but mention in Att. 6.1.13 with other governors is strongly in favor of a provincial command. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Tribunus Militum 69 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • All were Senators in 70, and presumably, like Tremellius, quaestorii, when elected senior Tribunes of the Soldiers for 69 (Cic. Verr. 1.30). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Münzer, in the belief that Varro did not avoid inconsistencies between the dramatic dates of the dialogues in Books I and II of the De Re Rustica (ca. January 56 for I, and 67 for II) and the career of the interlocutor Cn. Tremellius Scrofa, almost certainly combined, as P. A. Brunt and G. Perl have shown, the careers of two different individuals under the same name and number in RE (see Münzer, RE, and Hermes 61, 1926, 272-277; Brunt, CR 22, 1972, 304-308; Perl, AJAR 5, 1980, 97-109). The first and senior one, named above, was the agricultural authority, interlocutor in Books I and II, who claims to be the seventh of his gens to have attained the praetorship (2.4.2), and was a grandson of the Tremellius (see no. 6, below) who was quaestor under Licinius Nerva (130) in Macedonia in 143 or 142 (MRR 1.472), was the first to have the cognomen Scrofa (RR 2.4.1-2; Liv. Per. 53; Eutrop. 4.15; cf. Macrob. Sat. 1.6.30), and was a son of an otherwise unknown praetor (L. or Cn.?) of shortly before 100. He is described as follows in a group which contained Varro himself: et aetate et honore et scientia quod praestas (RR 1.3.1), and so was older and had attained office before Varro. He may have been born between 120 and 114, and have attained the quaestorship and the praetorship before him, quaestor ca. 87, as Perl conjectures, and praetor ca. 77, or perhaps 72, dates which would allow his command in Transalpine Gaul to be dated either before or after M. Fonteius (12), where there are gaps in the record (RR 1.7.8, In Gallia Transalpina intus, ad Rhenum cum exercitum ducerem; see Badian, Mel. Piganiol 901-913 for known governors and their dates; cf. Brunt, loc. Cit., and Perl, loc. Cit., above). His place with Varro on the board of XXviri under Caesar’s agrarian law is well attested (RR 1.2.10; cf. MRR 2.192). The dates on this record still admit that he could have been a magister of C. Lucilius Hirrus, Tr. Pl. 53, in his youth (RR 2.1.2). The second and younger Cn. Tremellius Scrofa (born ca. 101) was a quaestor under Crassus in 71 (Plut. Crass. 11.4, #), juror, and therefore a senator, in the trial of Verres in 70, and at that time a MRR3 military tribune elect for 69 ( Verr. 1.30; cf. MRR 2.133). The date of his praetorship remains uncertain, perhaps ca. 60 or the early 50s, if he held a proconsulate in 51-50 (Cic. Att. 5.4.2; 6.1.13; cf. 7.8.1), which Shackleton Bailey suggests was Crete and Cyrene because it was so insignificant and gave so little opportunity (CLA 3.246). This is denied by Perl because he was so much in Rome, but mention in Att. 6.1.13 with other governors is strongly in favor of a provincial command. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor before 51 (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • The following men held provincial governorships immediately after the passage in 52 of the Pompeian law which established an interval between the praetorship or consulship and a provincial command, and may therefore have held the praetorship before 57 (all the Praetors of 57 are known). It is however more probable that the law did not apply to magistrates in office in 53 and 52 (see 54, Praetors), hence these dates remain only as possibilities. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Att. 6.1.13; cf. 7.1.8. See 50, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Varro RR 2.4.2. See 71, Quaestors. (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2)
    • Münzer, in the belief that Varro did not avoid inconsistencies between the dramatic dates of the dialogues in Books I and II of the De Re Rustica (ca. January 56 for I, and 67 for II) and the career of the interlocutor Cn. Tremellius Scrofa, almost certainly combined, as P. A. Brunt and G. Perl have shown, the careers of two different individuals under the same name and number in RE (see Münzer, RE, and Hermes 61, 1926, 272-277; Brunt, CR 22, 1972, 304-308; Perl, AJAR 5, 1980, 97-109). The first and senior one, named above, was the agricultural authority, interlocutor in Books I and II, who claims to be the seventh of his gens to have attained the praetorship (2.4.2), and was a grandson of the Tremellius (see no. 6, below) who was quaestor under Licinius Nerva (130) in Macedonia in 143 or 142 (MRR 1.472), was the first to have the cognomen Scrofa (RR 2.4.1-2; Liv. Per. 53; Eutrop. 4.15; cf. Macrob. Sat. 1.6.30), and was a son of an otherwise unknown praetor (L. or Cn.?) of shortly before 100. He is described as follows in a group which contained Varro himself: et aetate et honore et scientia quod praestas (RR 1.3.1), and so was older and had attained office before Varro. He may have been born between 120 and 114, and have attained the quaestorship and the praetorship before him, quaestor ca. 87, as Perl conjectures, and praetor ca. 77, or perhaps 72, dates which would allow his command in Transalpine Gaul to be dated either before or after M. Fonteius (12), where there are gaps in the record (RR 1.7.8, In Gallia Transalpina intus, ad Rhenum cum exercitum ducerem; see Badian, Mel. Piganiol 901-913 for known governors and their dates; cf. Brunt, loc. Cit., and Perl, loc. Cit., above). His place with Varro on the board of XXviri under Caesar’s agrarian law is well attested (RR 1.2.10; cf. MRR 2.192). The dates on this record still admit that he could have been a magister of C. Lucilius Hirrus, Tr. Pl. 53, in his youth (RR 2.1.2). The second and younger Cn. Tremellius Scrofa (born ca. 101) was a quaestor under Crassus in 71 (Plut. Crass. 11.4, #), juror, and therefore a senator, in the trial of Verres in 70, and at that time a MRR3 military tribune elect for 69 ( Verr. 1.30; cf. MRR 2.133). The date of his praetorship remains uncertain, perhaps ca. 60 or the early 50s, if he held a proconsulate in 51-50 (Cic. Att. 5.4.2; 6.1.13; cf. 7.8.1), which Shackleton Bailey suggests was Crete and Cyrene because it was so insignificant and gave so little opportunity (CLA 3.246). This is denied by Perl because he was so much in Rome, but mention in Att. 6.1.13 with other governors is strongly in favor of a provincial command. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 755, footnote 483 (Brennan 2000)
  • Proconsul 51 Crete?, Cyrenaica? (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Governor of a province in the East (Cic. Att. 6.1.13, Feb. 20, 50; cf. 7.1.8). See above on Nonius. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Münzer, in the belief that Varro did not avoid inconsistencies between the dramatic dates of the dialogues in Books I and II of the De Re Rustica (ca. January 56 for I, and 67 for II) and the career of the interlocutor Cn. Tremellius Scrofa, almost certainly combined, as P. A. Brunt and G. Perl have shown, the careers of two different individuals under the same name and number in RE (see Münzer, RE, and Hermes 61, 1926, 272-277; Brunt, CR 22, 1972, 304-308; Perl, AJAR 5, 1980, 97-109). The first and senior one, named above, was the agricultural authority, interlocutor in Books I and II, who claims to be the seventh of his gens to have attained the praetorship (2.4.2), and was a grandson of the Tremellius (see no. 6, below) who was quaestor under Licinius Nerva (130) in Macedonia in 143 or 142 (MRR 1.472), was the first to have the cognomen Scrofa (RR 2.4.1-2; Liv. Per. 53; Eutrop. 4.15; cf. Macrob. Sat. 1.6.30), and was a son of an otherwise unknown praetor (L. or Cn.?) of shortly before 100. He is described as follows in a group which contained Varro himself: et aetate et honore et scientia quod praestas (RR 1.3.1), and so was older and had attained office before Varro. He may have been born between 120 and 114, and have attained the quaestorship and the praetorship before him, quaestor ca. 87, as Perl conjectures, and praetor ca. 77, or perhaps 72, dates which would allow his command in Transalpine Gaul to be dated either before or after M. Fonteius (12), where there are gaps in the record (RR 1.7.8, In Gallia Transalpina intus, ad Rhenum cum exercitum ducerem; see Badian, Mel. Piganiol 901-913 for known governors and their dates; cf. Brunt, loc. Cit., and Perl, loc. Cit., above). His place with Varro on the board of XXviri under Caesar’s agrarian law is well attested (RR 1.2.10; cf. MRR 2.192). The dates on this record still admit that he could have been a magister of C. Lucilius Hirrus, Tr. Pl. 53, in his youth (RR 2.1.2). The second and younger Cn. Tremellius Scrofa (born ca. 101) was a quaestor under Crassus in 71 (Plut. Crass. 11.4, #), juror, and therefore a senator, in the trial of Verres in 70, and at that time a MRR3 military tribune elect for 69 ( Verr. 1.30; cf. MRR 2.133). The date of his praetorship remains uncertain, perhaps ca. 60 or the early 50s, if he held a proconsulate in 51-50 (Cic. Att. 5.4.2; 6.1.13; cf. 7.8.1), which Shackleton Bailey suggests was Crete and Cyrene because it was so insignificant and gave so little opportunity (CLA 3.246). This is denied by Perl because he was so much in Rome, but mention in Att. 6.1.13 with other governors is strongly in favor of a provincial command. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 50 Crete?, Cyrenaica? (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Governor of an eastern province, perhaps Macedonia (Cic. Att. 6.1.13; 7.1.8; see 51, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Münzer, in the belief that Varro did not avoid inconsistencies between the dramatic dates of the dialogues in Books I and II of the De Re Rustica (ca. January 56 for I, and 67 for II) and the career of the interlocutor Cn. Tremellius Scrofa, almost certainly combined, as P. A. Brunt and G. Perl have shown, the careers of two different individuals under the same name and number in RE (see Münzer, RE, and Hermes 61, 1926, 272-277; Brunt, CR 22, 1972, 304-308; Perl, AJAR 5, 1980, 97-109). The first and senior one, named above, was the agricultural authority, interlocutor in Books I and II, who claims to be the seventh of his gens to have attained the praetorship (2.4.2), and was a grandson of the Tremellius (see no. 6, below) who was quaestor under Licinius Nerva (130) in Macedonia in 143 or 142 (MRR 1.472), was the first to have the cognomen Scrofa (RR 2.4.1-2; Liv. Per. 53; Eutrop. 4.15; cf. Macrob. Sat. 1.6.30), and was a son of an otherwise unknown praetor (L. or Cn.?) of shortly before 100. He is described as follows in a group which contained Varro himself: et aetate et honore et scientia quod praestas (RR 1.3.1), and so was older and had attained office before Varro. He may have been born between 120 and 114, and have attained the quaestorship and the praetorship before him, quaestor ca. 87, as Perl conjectures, and praetor ca. 77, or perhaps 72, dates which would allow his command in Transalpine Gaul to be dated either before or after M. Fonteius (12), where there are gaps in the record (RR 1.7.8, In Gallia Transalpina intus, ad Rhenum cum exercitum ducerem; see Badian, Mel. Piganiol 901-913 for known governors and their dates; cf. Brunt, loc. Cit., and Perl, loc. Cit., above). His place with Varro on the board of XXviri under Caesar’s agrarian law is well attested (RR 1.2.10; cf. MRR 2.192). The dates on this record still admit that he could have been a magister of C. Lucilius Hirrus, Tr. Pl. 53, in his youth (RR 2.1.2). The second and younger Cn. Tremellius Scrofa (born ca. 101) was a quaestor under Crassus in 71 (Plut. Crass. 11.4, #), juror, and therefore a senator, in the trial of Verres in 70, and at that time a MRR3 military tribune elect for 69 ( Verr. 1.30; cf. MRR 2.133). The date of his praetorship remains uncertain, perhaps ca. 60 or the early 50s, if he held a proconsulate in 51-50 (Cic. Att. 5.4.2; 6.1.13; cf. 7.8.1), which Shackleton Bailey suggests was Crete and Cyrene because it was so insignificant and gave so little opportunity (CLA 3.246). This is denied by Perl because he was so much in Rome, but mention in Att. 6.1.13 with other governors is strongly in favor of a provincial command. (Broughton MRR III)

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