PUBL0770 L. Publicius (16a) Malleolus

Career

  • Aedilis Plebis 241 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Both the date and the nature of the office are questioned. The Publicii are termed Curule Aediles in Festus, but Aediles of the Plebs in Varro and Floralia in 69, was almost certainly an Aedile of the Plebs (see 69, Aediles). Pliny sets the date in 238, Velleius in 241. Certainty is impossible since confusion of the numerals DXVI and DXIII is equally possible in either text. Seidel's date in 240 (Fast. Aed. 18) is based on the assumption that they were Curule Aediles and must as plebeians hold office in an even numbered Varronian year. (Broughton MRR I)
    • They built the Clivus Publicius, an aedes of Flora near the Circus Maximus, and instituted the Floralia (Varro LL 5.158; Ovid Fast. 5.275ff.; Vell. 1.14.8; Plin. NH 18.286; Tac. Ann. 2.49; Fest. 276 L). See Lübker nos. 3 and 4. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Aedilis 238 (Broughton MRR I)