Gaius Carrinas (consul)
Gaius Carrinas was a Roman politician, general and consul.
In 45 BC, Carrinas was sent on the orders of
Octavian made Carrinas governor of Spain, where he warred with Bocchus II. In 36 BC, Octavian sent him with three legions against Sextus Pompeius in Sicily. In 31 BC Carrinas was made proconsular governor of Gaul, where he successfully fought against the rebellious Morini and drove the invading Suebi
back across the Rhine, for which he was honoured with a triumph in 29 BC.
Carrinas was the son of the Marian commander Gaius Carrinas. Havercamp supposed Carrinas to be a cognomen of the Albia gens,[1] but as the names never appear together in inscriptions, and Umbrian nomina frequently end in -as,[2] it seems that the Carrinates were a separate gens of Oscan or Umbrian origin.
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- Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Civile (The Civil War), iv. 83, v. 26, 112.
- Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History, xlvii. 15, li. 21, 22.
- Sigebert Havercamp, Thesaurus Morelliantes (1734).
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849), vol. I, pp. 615, 616 ("Carrinas or Carinas", No. 2).