Gaius Junius Bubulcus Brutus
Gaius Junius Bubulcus Brutus (fl. late 4th century BC) was a Roman general and statesman, he was elected
The desultory manner in which Junius Bubulcus survives in the historical record obscures the stature indicated by the number of high offices he held from 317 to 302 BC; it has been observed that he "cannot have been as colourless as he appears in Livy."[4]
Political and military career
Junius was consul in 317 BC with the patrician Quintus Aemilius Barbula. The two were joint consuls again in 311. From the mid-4th century to the early 3rd century BC, several plebeian-patrician "tickets" repeated joint terms, suggesting a deliberate political strategy of cooperation.[5] The Second Samnite War was a formative time in the creation of a ruling elite (the nobiles) that comprised both patricians and plebeians who had risen to power.[6] As consul, Junius exerted force in central Italy to restore Roman control over the Vestini.[7]
In 313 BC, as consul with
In 311, Junius held command in
During a Samnite ambush, Junius had prayed to
In their second joint consulship, both Junius Bubulcus and Aemilius Barbula refused to recognize the revision of the
Junius was magister equitum in 310[25] and possibly again in 309; his office in the latter year may have been dictator.[26]
As censor in 307 with Marcus Valerius Maximus, he removed Lucius Annius from the senate on moral grounds. Annius had divorced his wife even though she had been a virgin when they married, and had done so without honoring his social obligations by consulting his friends.[27]
Junius was appointed dictator again in 302 BC. Livy's account of this year is somewhat confused. He makes both Junius and Valerius Maximus dictatores, but military campaigns on at least four fronts may account for the multiplicity of appointments. Junius's war against the Aequi is one of a series from 304 to 300 BC. Junius swiftly put down an insurrection that broke out when Alba was colonized,[28] and the Aequi ceased to exist as a separate people at this time.[29] There is a consul in 292 of the same name, this may be him or an unknown son.[30]
References
- T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, pp. 155, 158, 159, 160–161, 162, 165; vol. 2, p. 577.
- ^ Anna Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 50.
- ^ Richard D. Weigel, "Roman Generals and the Vowing of Temples, 500–100 B.C.," Classica et Mediaevalia (Museum Tusculanum Press, 1998), p. 122; Eric M. Orlin, Temples, Religion, and Politics in the Roman Republic (Brill, 1997), pp. 179–180.
- ^ Christopher John Smith, The Roman Clan: The gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 43.
- ^ Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War (University of California Press, 2005), p. 269.
- ^ E.T. Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites (Cambridge University Press, 1967), p. 217.
- ^ Salmon, Samnium, p. 220, asserting that Livy is mistaken to attribute these actions to Decimus Junius Brutus, the consul of 325.
- ^ Livy 9.28.5–6; Diodorus 19.101.2. Livy notes that others say Poetelius Libo Visolus captured Nola.
- ^ Livy 9.29.3.
- ^ Fasti Capitolini, Degrassi 36f., 110, 420f.
- ^ Salmon, Samnium, p. 241.
- ^ Livy 9.32; Forsythe, Critical History p. 306.
- ^ Tim Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000–264 BC) (Routledge, 1995), p. 354.
- ^ Salmon, Samnium, p. 244.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus 20.26.3.
- Zonaras8.1.1.
- ^ Jane E. Phillips, "Current Research in Livy's First Decade," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.30.2 (1982), pp. 1016–1017, summarizing the view of J.M. Libourel.
- ^ Livy 9.31–32; Diodorus 20.25 (placing instead both Junius and his consular colleague Aemilius Barbula in Apulia); Ida Östenberg, Staging the World: Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 169.
- ^ S.P. Oakley, A Commentary on Livy, Books VI–X (Oxford University Press, 2005, 2007), pp. 330–332; Richard D. Weigel, "Roman Generals and the Vowing of Temples, 500–100 B.C.," Classica et Mediaevalia (Museum Tusculanum Press, 1998), pp. 122 and 138. For an overview of the ritual, see T. Corey Brennan, The Praetorship of the Roman Republic (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 21–22, and H.S. Versnel, Triumphus: An Inquiry into the Origin, Development, and Meaning of the Roman Triumph p. 359–360 online.
- ^ Livy 9.43.25; Forsythe, Critical History, p. 342; Weigel, "Roman Generals and the Vowing of Temples," p. 138.
- ^ Livy 10.1.9.
- ^ Clark, Divine Qualities, pp. 50–52.
- ^ Clark, Divine Qualities, p. 141.
- ^ Livy 9.30.1–2.
- ^ Livy 9.38.15, 40.8–9
- ^ See Broughton, MRR1, p. 158.
- ^ Valerius Maximus 2.9.2; Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus (Routledge, 2002), p. 195, note 54.
- ^ S.P. Oakley, A Commentary on Livy, Books VI–X (Oxford University Press, 2005, 2007), pp. 44–45.
- ^ Salmon, Samnium, p. 256.
- ^ Livy 9, 27 4.