Gaius Furnius (tribune)

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Gaius Furnius was

plebeian tribune in 50 BC,[1] and a friend and correspondent of Cicero.[2]

Cicero relied on the efforts of Furnius, while tribune, to obtain for him his recall at the end of his first year as proconsul of

Transalpine Gaul for 43 BC,[7] and he was legate to Plancus during the first war between Antony and Octavian; he also informed Cicero of the movements and sentiments of the Roman legions and commanders in Gaul and Spain, but his letters have not been preserved.[8] After the end of the Mutina conflict he served with Plancus until after the Battle of Philippi
in 42 BC.

In the Perusine War, 41-40 BC, Furnius took part with Lucius Antonius. He defended Sentinum in Umbria against Augustus, and shared the sufferings of the Perusina fames ("Perusine famine"). Furnius was one of three officers commissioned by Lucius Antonius to negotiate the surrender of Perusia, and his reception by Augustus was such as to awaken in the Antonians suspicions of his fidelity.[9]

In 35 BC he was prefect of

Gaius Furnius, was reconciled with Augustus[11] received from him the rank of a consular senator,[12] and was afterwards appointed one of the suffect consuls in 29 BC. This is the first time the name of Furnius appears on the consular Fasti. He was prefect of Hispania Tarraconensis in 21 BC.[13]

Furnius is probably mentioned by Tacitus, De Oratoribus 21, among the speakers whose meagre and obsolete diction rendered their works impossible to read without an inclination to sleep or smile.

References

  1. ^ Cicero ad Att. v. 2, 18
  2. ^ Cicero, Ad Fam. x. 25, 26.
  3. ^ Cicero, Ad Fam. viii. 10, ix. 24, xv. 14.
  4. ^ Cicero, ad Att. vi. 1.
  5. ^ Cicero, ad Fam. viii. 10
  6. ^ Cicero, ad Att. ix. 6, 11, vii. 19
  7. ^ Ad Fam. x. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12
  8. ^ Cicero, Ad Fam. x
  9. Dio Cassius
    xlviii. 13, 14.
  10. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile v. 137-42
  11. ^ Seneca the Younger, De Benef. ii. 25
  12. ^ Dio Cassius, lii. 42
  13. ^ Dio Cassius, liv.5; Flor. iv. 12

Bibliography

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "C. Furnius (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 191.
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