Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

PAPI0409 L. Papirius (66) Mugillanus

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

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

Career

  • Tribunus Militum Consulari Potestate? 389 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Valerius' praenomen A. in Livy is corrected by reference to the number iterum (see 394) and Livy 5.26.2 and 6.5.7. Verginius may have been Mil. Tr. c. p. in 402. On possible identifications for Cornelius, see 394, note 1. The identification of Manlius is supported by the number tertium after his name in 383 (Liv. 6.21.1) and the cognomen in Chr. 354 on 385. On the name of Aemilius, see Fast. Cap. for 380; on that of Postumius, see 381, Mil. Tr. c. p. On Papirius, see 382, note 1. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Diod. 15.22.1; see below, Censors. (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)
  • Tribunus Militum Consulari Potestate 382 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • According to Diodorus there were only four Military Tribunes this year. The confused tradition in the Mss contains no trace of the names Sulpicius and Aemilius; on the others, see CIL 1(2).1, p. 123; Degrassi 101, 392f. Münzer (RE no. 12) holds that both the Papirii of this year bore the cognomen Crassus. It seems probable in the case of Sp. Papirius, since the filiation of the Military Tribune c. p. of 368 was Sp. f. C. n. His name therefore should probably be read Sp. Papirius C. f. - n. Crassus. Münzer would identify L. Papirius with the Military Tribune c. p. of 376 and the obscure Papirius cited in Chr. 354 under the year 374. Degrassi (101) lists L. Papirius as a Crassus but does not suggest any cognomen for Sp. Papirius. An L. Papirius Mugillanus is named in Fast. Cap. for 380 as a Military Tribune c. p. for the second time, but the date of his earlier Military Tribunate remains uncertain. Münzer (RE no. 66) would identify him with the L. Papirius, Military Tribune in 389, who is named only in Diodorus, and Degrassi suggests that his name should be inserted as the one that has been lost from the list for 385. He admits however that the second Military Tribunate of Cn. Sergius Fidenas Coxo could be listed there. I am inclined to place Sergius Coxo in 385, to consider that the L. Papirius mentioned in 389 is imperfectly attested, and to suggest that the L. Papirius who is listed as a Military Tribune in this year is a Mugillanus, not a Crassus, and held the office for the second time in 380. The filiation, however, of L. Papirius L. f. L. n. Crassus, Cos. 336, and 330, indicates that there was an L. Papirius Crassus in Rome in this generation. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 6.22.1; Diod. 15.41.1; Chr. 354 (Fidenas et Grasso); Degrassi 101, 392f. War with Velitrae and Praeneste (Liv. 6.22.1-4). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Militum Consulari Potestate 380 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The names are preserved in Fast. Cap. as follows: L. Valerius L. f. [- - - -]; P. (Valerius) L. f. L. [n. Poti]tus Poplicol. III; Connelius, Menenius, and Sulpicius, entire as above; [- - - -]n. Mamercin. VI; Cn. [Sergius - f. - n.] Fiden. Coxo III; Ti. Papiri[us - f. - n.] Crassus; L. (Papirius) [- f. - n.] Mugillanus II. Livy lists six, L. and P. Valerius, C. (sic) Sergius, Licinius (sic) Menenius, P. (sic) Papirius, and Sergius (sic) Cornelius Maluginensis. Diod. indicates eight, and in his confused Mss tradition may be identified two Valerii (of P. the praenomen only), Menenius (with praenomen L.), Sulpicius, Aemilius, Papirius (only one, with praenomen T.), and the apocryphal names {Gr} (add. F), C. or Cn. Terentius, and {Gr} (add. F); Degrassi 393. The nine named in Fast. Cap. have no parallel, and it appears that no college of more than eight was known to Claudius (ILS 212; cf. Liv. 5.2.10; 6.37.6; Dion. Hal. 11.56.3). Clearly Fast. Cap. has the most seriously interpolated tradition. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 6.27.2; Diod. 15.50.1; Fast. Cap. (note 1); Chr. 354 (Publicola V et Mamertino VI); Degrassi 32f., 102, 392f. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Militum Consulari Potestate 376 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Diod. lists under this year four Military Tribunes. Livy on the other hand has the solitudo magistratuum forced by tribunician action begin this year and lists no more until 370. See note 2 for a possible explanation of the discrepancy between Livy and Diod. Degrassi suggests the cognomen Crassus for Mugillanus; but see 385, note 1, and 382, note 1. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Diod. 15.71.1; Chr. 354 (Lanato IIII et Praetextato); Degrassi 102, 394f. (Broughton MRR I)

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