Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SEMP0976 Ti. Sempronius (67) Ti. f. C. n. Longus

As a solution for the difficulties in the augural succession .in this period Badian (Arethusa 1, 1968, 31-33), following Mommsen, suggests excising as erroneous the phrase in Livy 27.6.15 Ti. Sempronius Ti. f. Longus augur factus in locum T. Otacilii Crassi, thus removing from this place in the college of augurs a Sempronius whose presence would result in the cooptation of another Sempronius, a Gracchus, in 204, during his tenure (until 174, Livy 41.21.8-9; MRR 1.282-283, 407, notes 4 and 5, 309). Livy reports this cooptation in 204 (29.38.7) of a Gracchus, admodum adulescens, and records the deaths, both of Longus and of this Gracchus in 174 (41.21.8-9). He lists as successor T. Veturius Gracchus Sempronianus, whom Geer (and I) proposed to rename Ti. Sempronius Gracchus Veturianus on the ground that the Veturii were patrician and only plebeian places were available at that time in the college of augurs (Geer, AJPh 60, 1939, 466-467; cf. MRR 1.405, 407, notes 4 and 5), and the name would then represent the adoption of a patrician by a plebeian. Badian points out the possibility of a line of plebeian Veturii descending from Veturius Calvinus (8), Cos. 321 (op. cit. 34), and defends the name as given in Livy, explaining the intrusive word Gracchus as either coming from his predecessor or representing the words Gracchi f. His place in the augural college would not prevent the cooptation of the summus augur, the consul of 177 and 163, and father of the Gracchi, at some date between 174 and 163. (Broughton MRR III)

Status

  • Nobilis Expand

    Liv. 39.40.2-3, 39.41.1

Life Dates

  • 230?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin no. 81, 148.

  • 174, death (Broughton MRR I)

Relationships

son of
Ti. Sempronius (66) C. f. C. n. Longus (cos. 218) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Liv. XXXIV 42.3

Career

  • Augur 210 to 174 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Decemvir Sacris Faciundis 210 to 174 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • See 174, note 4. At his death in 174 Longus is termed Decemvir but the Augur who died then had the cognomen Gracchus. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Ti. Sempronius Ti. f. Longus succeeded Ti. Sempronius C. f. Longus. (Broughton MRR I)
    • As a solution for the difficulties in the augural succession .in this period Badian (Arethusa 1, 1968, 31-33), following Mommsen, suggests excising as erroneous the phrase in Livy 27.6.15 Ti. Sempronius Ti. f. Longus augur factus in locum T. Otacilii Crassi, thus removing from this place in the college of augurs a Sempronius whose presence would result in the cooptation of another Sempronius, a Gracchus, in 204, during his tenure (until 174, Livy 41.21.8-9; MRR 1.282-283, 407, notes 4 and 5, 309). Livy reports this cooptation in 204 (29.38.7) of a Gracchus, admodum adulescens, and records the deaths, both of Longus and of this Gracchus in 174 (41.21.8-9). He lists as successor T. Veturius Gracchus Sempronianus, whom Geer (and I) proposed to rename Ti. Sempronius Gracchus Veturianus on the ground that the Veturii were patrician and only plebeian places were available at that time in the college of augurs (Geer, AJPh 60, 1939, 466-467; cf. MRR 1.405, 407, notes 4 and 5), and the name would then represent the adoption of a patrician by a plebeian. Badian points out the possibility of a line of plebeian Veturii descending from Veturius Calvinus (8), Cos. 321 (op. cit. 34), and defends the name as given in Livy, explaining the intrusive word Gracchus as either coming from his predecessor or representing the words Gracchi f. His place in the augural college would not prevent the cooptation of the summus augur, the consul of 177 and 163, and father of the Gracchi, at some date between 174 and 163. Sumner, noting that the Sempronius Gracchus who was an augur from 204 to 174 would in any case have reached the age for a praetorship before his death in 174 (""not old enough to reach high office and come to our notice,"" Badian 33), suggests that the notice of his death in 174 was a mistake: he was the consul of 177 and 163 and had been adopted by a Veturius to avoid having two Sempronii in the college at the same, time, just as Lentulus Spinther was adopted by a Manlius in 57 (Dio 39.17), and, like Lentulus, continued for ordinary purposes to use his original name (Orators 38-39; for other examples of continued use, see Shackleton Bailey, Studies, esp. 109, 113-114). Tr. pl. 187. Livy (38.52-60), with Valerius Antias as his source, places Gracchus' tribunate in 187. This date avoids the difficulty raised if, as I was inclined to hold in MRR, 1.376, 378, note 4, Gracchus was a member of an embassy to Greece in 185-184 (1.373, and 374, note 7). Scullard (Roman Politics. 142-145, 290-303) places the tribunate of Gracchus in 187, and with him his colleagues Fannius (6) and Minucius Augurinus (30) (1.375-376), and puts the trial of L. Scipio in the same year. In 184 the attack was directed against Africanus. This seems to me the best solution of the problem. Praetor and proconsul in Hisp. Cit. 180, 179-178. Founder of Graccuris (App. Ib. 43), and apparently also founder (deductor) of Iliturgis (A. Blanco and G. Lachica, AEArq 1960, 193-196; A. d'Ors, Akte des IV. int. Kong. gr. u. lat. Epig. 304-305; Acta 5th Int. Congress Gr. & Lat. Epig. 256, in answer to A. Degrassi, Epigraphica III-Scritti Vari 3.129ff., who notes that the lettering cannot be earlier than the late Republic). See also J. M. Reynolds, JRS 61, 1971, 139.[188x][189]" (Broughton MRR III)
  • Tribunus Plebis 200 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Opposed the grant of an ovatio to L. Cornelius Lentulus (Liv. 31.20.5-6; see Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Aedilis Curulis 198 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 32.27.8. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 197 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Were commissioned for three years to settle colonies at the mouths of the Volturnus and the Liternus, at Puteoli, Castrum Salerni, and Buxentum (Liv. 32.29.3-4; cf. 34.45.2; Vell. 1.15.2). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor 196 Sardinia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Election Liv. 33.24.2 Provinces and armies 33.26.1-4, and 43.7-8. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 730 (Brennan 2000)
  • Promagistrate 195 Sardinia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Imperium prorogued, probably pro praetore, in Sardinia (Liv. 33.43.9). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Consul 194 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Corn., in Ascon. 69 C; Liv. 34.43.3, and 44.3; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 48f., 121, 454f.; Val. Max. 4.5.1; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr.{343} Pasc.; Oros. 4.20.15; Cassiod.; and on Scipio, Nep. Cato 2.2; Elogium, Inscr. Ital. 13.3.89- CIL 1 .1, p. 201; I. de Délos 442 B, 102; 1429 A, 26; 1450 A, 68 (in 190-189). Both Consuls campaigned against the Boii and the Ligurians, with Sempronius apparently taking the leading part, and Scipio returned to hold the elections (Liv. 34.43.3-5 and 9; 34.46-48.2, and 54.1; Oros. 4.20.15; cf. Nep. Cato 2; Plut. Cat. Mai. 11) 1 . (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 194 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 197, Special Commissions. In this, the last year of the three year term of these commissioners, are mentioned the colonies authorized{346} in 197, Puteoli, Volturnum, Liternum, Salernum, Buxentum (Liv. 34.45.1-2). On Puteoli, see also CIL 1.2.698. On all the colonies, see Jerome, Chr. ad ann. 191, p. 136 Helm. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Promagistrate? 193 Gallia Cisalpina, Liguria (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See Legates. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 193 Gallia Cisalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Served as Legates under Cornelius Merula in Gaul (Liv. 35.5 and 6, and 8.1); but in 35.8.6 Sempronius as holder of imperium is contrasted with Marcellus: see Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 191 Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • No title preserved; served under Glabrio (Liv. 36.22.7, and 24.1; cf. on Cato and L. Valerius Flaccus). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Repulsa (Cens.) 184 (Pina Polo 2012) Expand
    • pp. 65-72 (Pina Polo 2012)

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