Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SEMP0882 P. Sempronius (96) C. f. C. n. Tuditanus

Life Dates

  • 243?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin no. 82.

Relationships

nephew of
M. Sempronius (93) C. f. M. n. Tuditanus (cos. 240) (RE)

Career

  • Tribunus Militum 216 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • With Octavius (see above), he led some soldiers in a break through Hannibal's lines at Cannae (Liv. 22.50.6-12, and 60.8-18; 24.43.8; cf. Coelius fr. 22 Peter; Frontin. Str. 4.5.7; App. Hann. 26). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Aedilis Curulis 214 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 24.43.6-8. Celebrated ludi scaenici per quadriduum. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor 213 Gallia Cisalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Election Liv. 24.43.6 Provinces and armies 24.44.2-3, cf. 25.3.4 and 6 (Broughton MRR I)
    • Captured the town of Atrinium (Liv. 24.47.14). (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 727 (Brennan 2000)
  • Promagistrate 212 Gallia Cisalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Imperium prorogued in Gaul (Liv. 25.3.5; cf. 26.1.5). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Promagistrate 211 Gallia Cisalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Imperium prorogued in Gaul (Liv. 26.15). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 209 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 46f., 120, 448f. They leased the Campanian land, revised the Senate list with severity for the Metellus who urged desertion of Italy after Cannae, and for those knights who avoided military service (Liv. 27.11.8 and 12-16). Broke precedent to choose Fabius Princeps Senatus (27.11.7-11; Elogium Fabii). Completed the lustrum the following year (27.36.6-7). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 205 Macedonia, Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Proconsul in Macedonia and Greece as Sulpicius' successor, he began military operations, but held a conference with Philip and concluded the peace of Phoenice (Liv. 29.12; Zon. 9.11; cf. App. Mac. 3). Elected Consul while still in his province (Liv. 29.11.10, and 12.16). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Consul 204 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Enn. Ann. 303-308 V; Cic. Brut. 60; Sen. 10; Liv. 29.11.10; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 46f., 120, 450f.; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Cethegus, cf. Grueber, CRRBM 2.271; Cesano, Stud. Num. 1.171. The Consuls heard complaints of the Locrians against Pleminius and Scipio, and appointed a senatorial commission to investigate them (Liv. 29.16.4-20.11; Diod. 27.4; App. Hann. 55; Dio fr. 57.62; see 205, Legates, and below, Promagistrates, Legates, and Special Commissions). Cethegus' province was Etruria, where he punished traitors who had negotiated with Mago (Liv. 29.13.1, and 36.10-12; Zon. 9.11). Sempronius in Bruttium suffered a reverse, then joined forces with Licinius Crassus (see Promagistrates), and after vowing a temple to Fortuna Primigeneia, gained a victory (Liv. 29.13.1, and 36.4-9; Dio fr. 57.70; Oros. 4.18.18; Zon. 9.11; cf. Fest. 272 L; see Otto, RE s. v. "Fortuna," cols. 27-28). He won Clampetia and several{306} other towns (Liv. 29.38.1). Cethegus held the elections (29.38.2-5). On his relation to the cult of the Magna Mater, see Grueber, CRRBM 2.271; Cesano, Stud. Num. 1.171. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 203 Bruttium (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Imperium prorogued as Proconsul in Bruttium (Liv. 30.1.3, and 27.7). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 201 Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • This embassy was appointed late in the consular year 201, as the annalistic source in Livy states, and is found active in Greece by the spring of the Julian year 200 (Holleaux, CAH 8.161; REA 25 [1923] 355f.; on the state of the Roman calendar, see De Sanctis 4.1.368ff.). They appeared in Athens in the spring of 200. Whatever may have been said about Egypt, their chief{323} mission lay in Greece, Rhodes, and Pergamum (see Walbank and McDonald, J RS 27 [1937] 189ff., and the studies discussed there; Walbank, Philip V of Macedon 313ff.). The connections between Aemilius Lepidus and the Ptolemies may have developed later (see Otto, Zur Gesch. d. Zeit d. 6. Ptolemäers, 27ff.; cf. Cichorius, RS 22f.). (Broughton MRR I)
    • This embassy, sent ostensibly to Egypt, was appointed after Attalus of Pergamum and Rhodes had appealed to Rome regarding Philip's aggressions, and before the Consuls of 201 had returned from their provinces (Liv. 31.2.1-4, and 18.1; Polyb. 16.27, and 34.1-7; cf. Val. Max. 6.6.1; Tac. Ann. 2.67; App. Mac. 4; Iustin. 30.3-4; 31.1-2; and on the coins referring to Lepidus as tutor regis, Grueber, CRRBM 1.449; Cesano, Stud. Num. 1.173f.). See 200, Legates. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 200 Achaea, Rhodes, Aegyptus (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • This embassy went to various points in Greece, including Athens, then to Rhodes, and finally to Egypt (Polyb. 16.25-27; Liv. 31.18.1; App. Mac. 4). Aemilius bore Rome's ultimatum to Philip at Abydos (Polyb. 16.34.1-7; Liv. 31.18.1-7; Diod. 28.6; Iustin. 31.3.3-4). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 200 Achaea, Rhodes, Aegyptus (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • This embassy went to various points in Greece, including Athens, then to Rhodes, and finally to Egypt (Polyb. 16.25-27; Liv. 31.18.1; App. Mac. 4). Aemilius bore Rome's ultimatum to Philip at Abydos (Polyb. 16.34.1-7; Liv. 31.18.1-7; Diod. 28.6; Iustin. 31.3.3-4). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 199 Aegyptus, Syria (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 201 and 200. They probably went on to Syria and Egypt to complete their mission by late 200 or early 199 (Iustin. 30.3.3-4; cf. Polyb. 16.27.5, and 34.2; Liv. 31.18.1, cf. 2..3-4; 33.19.8; cf. Holleaux, REA 15 [1913] 4, notes 1 and 2). (Broughton MRR I)

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