Cispius

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For other uses, see Cispius (disambiguation).

Cispius is the

gens Cispia
.

Cispius Laevus

The

Anagnia, of the Publilia voting tribe (tribus). This Cispius may be legendary.[1]

M. Cispius

Marcus Cispius was a tribune of the plebs in 57 BC, and was among those tribunes who actively supported Cicero in his efforts to overturn the legislation that brought about his exile.[2] Earlier, however, Cicero had brought a civil suit in which he spoke against Cispius, his brother, and their father. Sometime after Cispius's tribunate, most likely in early 56, he was defended by Cicero on a charge of electoral corruption (ambitus) and convicted.[3] Cicero calls him "a man of character and principle."[4] The two men maintained their friendship in the 50s; in 55, Cicero wrote a letter of recommendation[5] to the proconsul of Africa, Q. Valerius Orca, on behalf of men associated with Cispius.[6] Cispius may have been a praetor[7] sometime after 54.[8]

L. Cispius (Laevus)

Lucius Cispius, probably with the

Munatius Plancus, carrying dispatches to Rome for him; this man was most likely Caesar's naval commander.[10]

See also

  • Cispia (gens)

References

Unless otherwise noted, dates, offices and citations of ancient sources are from

T.R.S. Broughton
, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1; vol. 2 (1952); vol. 3 (1986); abbreviated MRR.

  1. ^ Ronald Syme, "Senators, Tribes and Towns," Historia 13 (1964), pp. 107, 115.
  2. ^ Cicero, Post Reditum in Senatu 21; Pro Sestio 76.
  3. ^ Michael C. Alexander, Trials in the Late Roman Republic, 149 BC to 50 BC (University of Toronto Press, 1990), pp. 127, 136; W. Jeffrey Tatum, The Patrician Tribune (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), pp. 178 and 318, note 203.
  4. ^ Vir optimus et constantissimus (Pro Sestio 76), as translated by Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939), p. 81.
  5. ^ Ad familiares 13.6.2.
  6. ^ John Nicholson, "The Delivery and Confidentiality of Cicero's Letters," Classical Journal 90 (1994), pp. 47–48.
  7. ^ CIL 4, 1278.
  8. ^ General sources on Marcus Cispius: Cicero, Pro Sestio 76, Pro Plancio 77–75; Bobbio Scholiast 165 Stangl; MRR2 pp. 202, 544.
  9. T.P. Wiseman, New Men in the Roman Senate (Oxford University Press, 1971), no. 120, p. 224, as cited by Elizabeth Rawson
    , "Caesar, Etruria and the Disciplina Etrusca," Journal of Roman Studies 68 (1978), p. 151.
  10. ^ Cicero, Ad familiares 10.18.1–2 and 21.3; MRR2 pp. 351, 544, and MRR3 p. 53; Ronald Syme, review of Broughton, Classical Philology 50 (1955), p. 135, and "Senators, Tribes and Towns," p. 115.
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