Lucius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony)

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Lucius Antonius
Coin from 41 BC
Bornc. 78 BC
Other namesPietas
Parents

Lucius Antonius (fl. c. 44 – 41 BC) was the younger brother and supporter of Mark Antony, a Roman politician. He was nicknamed Pietas as a young man.[1]

Biography

Early life

Lucius was a son of

Gaius Antonius, he spent his early years roaming through Rome in bad company. Plutarch
refers to the untamed life of the youths and their friends, frequenting gambling houses and drinking too much.

Career

Lucius was always a strong supporter of Mark Antony. In 44 BC, the year of Antony's consulship and Julius Caesar's assassination, Lucius, as tribune of the plebs, brought forward a law authorizing Caesar to nominate the chief magistrates during his absence from Rome. After the murder of Caesar, he supported his brother Marcus. He proposed an agrarian law in favor of the people and Caesar's veterans and took part in the operations at Mutina (43 BC).

In 41 BC, he was

Lepidus, and promised the people that the triumvirate would be abolished. On the approach of Octavian, he retired to Perusia in Etruria, where he was besieged by three armies, and compelled to surrender in the winter of 41 BC. The city was destroyed but his life was spared, and he was sent by Octavian to Spain as governor. Nothing is known of the circumstances or date of his death. Cicero
, in his Philippics, actuated in great measure by personal animosity, gives a highly unfavorable view of his character.

See also

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Antonius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 150–151.

Citations

  1. ISBN 9780199381135
    .

Sources

  • Appian, Bellum Civile, v. 14 ff.
  • Dio Cassius xlviii. 5–14.
  • Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, II, 14–5.

External links

Media related to Lucius Antonius Pietas at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by
Marcus Aemilianus Lepidus and Lucius Munatius Plancus
Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus

41 BC 		Succeeded by
Gaius Asinius Pollio and Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus
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