Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

QUIN0916 T. Quinctius (38) L. f. L. n. Crispinus

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 208, death - violent (Broughton MRR I) Expand

    Mortally wounded against Carthaginian forces.

Relationships

grandson of
? L. Quinctius (42) (father of? T. Quinctius (44) Flamininus) (Zmeskal 2009)
father of
? L. Quinctius (37) Crispinus (pr. 186) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 213 Sicilia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Appointed to the place of Ap. Claudius by Marcellus (Liv. 24.39.12-13; see De Sanctis, 3.2.329-334; above, 214, note 6). See Lübker, no. 7. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 212 Sicilia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Since Crispinus was serving in Sicily he cannot be identified with the knight T. Quinctius Crispinus whom Badius the Campanian challenged to a duel at Capua (Liv. 25.18.4-15; Val. Max. 5.1.3; cf. Münzer, APF 50 and 116; De Sanctis 3.2.256, note 107; 293, note 150; 369f.). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Served under Marcellus in Sicily; in charge of the camp outside Syracuse when Hippocrates attacked it (Liv. 25.26.4-7). See Lübker, no. 7. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor 209 Capua, Campania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Election Liv. 27.6.12 Provinces and armies 27.7.8-12, cf. 22.5-6See Lübker, no. 7. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 728 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 208 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 27.22.1; 30.27.11; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 46f., 120, 448f.; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Quinctius, Liv. 27.35.3; and{290} on Marcellus, Cic. Div. 2.77-78; Nep. Hann. 5.3; Ascon. 12 C; Plut. Fab. 19; Marc. 1, 28, 30; Comp. Pel. et Marc. 3.4; App. Hann. 50; Auct. Vir. Ill. 45.7; cf. Grueber, CRRBM 1.567. Both Consuls were assigned provinces against Hannibal in southern Italy (Liv. 27.22.2, and 25.6 and 11). Marcellus, after a delay in order to make his temple of Honos and Virtus satisfy religious rules (see 222, Consuls; Liv. 27.25.7-9; cf. Cic. Verr. 2.4.120-123; ND 2.61; Rep. 1.21; Val. Max. 1.1.8; Plut. Marc. 28; Fort. Rom. 5; Ascon. 12 C; Lact. Div. Inst. 1.20.12; cf. CIL 1 .2.608, 609), went to Venusia, while Crispinus tried to attack Locri (Liv. 27.25.11-14; cf. Plut. Marc. 29). While both Consuls were reconnoitering near Petelia, they were caught in an ambush, so that Marcellus was killed and Crispinus mortally wounded (Polyb. 10.32; Liv. 27.26-27; Val. Max. 1.6.9; Plut. Marc. 29; App. Hann. 50; Oros. 4.18.6-8; Zon. 9.9; and on Marcellus, Cic. Tusc. 1.89; Nep. Hann. 5.3; Plin. NH 11.189; Plut. Comp. Pel. et Marc. 3; Fab. 19; Flam. 1; Sil. It. 15.334-380; Eutrop. 3.16; Auct. Vir. Ill. 45.7). Crispinus retreated, warned Salapia and other towns, and sent Marcellus' army to Venusia (Liv. 27.28.2-4, and 29.1-6, and 33.6). Died after appointing a Dictator (Liv. 27.33.6; see below, Dictator). On the burial of Marcellus, see Cic. Sen. 75; Liv. 27.28.1; Val. Max. 5.1, ext. 6; Plut. Marc. 30; Comp. Pel. et Marc. 3; App. Hann. 50; Sil. It. 15.381-396; Auct. Vir. Ill. 45.7-8; Suid. 1.2.999 B; Zon. 9.9. On Quinctius, see Münzer, APF 116f.; Lübker, no. 7. (Broughton MRR I)

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