Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 38 BC)

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Lucius Marcius Philippus
Gaius Norbanus Flaccus
Succeeded byMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Lucius Caninius Gallus
Personal details
Born
Lucius Marcius Philippus

Unknown
Marcia
Parents (father)
  • Unknown (mother)
  • Lucius Marcius Philippus was a Roman politician who was elected suffect consul in 38 BC. He was step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, as well as his uncle (his sister was Atia Balba Secundus, mother of Augustus.)

    Life

    O: diademed head of Ancus Marcius, lituus behind

    ANCVS

    R: equestrian statue on 5 arches of aqueduct (Aqua Marcia)

    PHILIPPVS A-Q-V-A-(MAR)

    Silver denarius struck by Lucius Marcius Philippus in Rome 56 BC.

    Lucius Marcius Philippus claimed origin of his family from the fourth legendary Roman king

    Marcii
    are responsible for supplies of fresh water.

    A member of the

    propraetor to Mauretania, to persuade kings Bocchus II and Bogud to side with Pompey and abandon Julius Caesar.[2] In 44 BC he was elected praetor, and although he was granted a province to administer after his term had finished, he refused to accept the validity of the allotment of provinces agreed to in a Senate meeting of November 28, 44 BC.[3]

    With his father's marriage to

    Portico of Octavia
    .

    Philippus did not appear to have any living sons to succeed him.

    Marcia, who later married Paullus Fabius Maximus. Marcia had one son and possibly one daughter: Paullus Fabius Persicus and Fabia Numantina, who may have been the daughter of Maximus' brother Africanus Fabius Maximus
    .

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ Broughton, pg. 254
    2. ^ Holmes, pg. 2; Broughton, pg. 258
    3. ^ Broughton, pg. 321
    4. ^ Syme, pg. 229; Broughton, pg. 389
    5. ^ Broughton, pg. 407; Syme, pg. 239
    6. ^ Broughton, pg. 415; Syme, pg. 241
    7. ^ Syme, pg. 241; Broughton, pg. 415
    8. ^ Syme, pg. 496
    9. ISBN 978-0-19-814731-2. The name evokes Atia, the mother of Caesar Augustus and her younger sister Atia, who married Marcius Philippus (suff. 38 BC), whence Marcia, a cousin of the Princeps. (Limited Preview of this page at Google Books
      )

    Sources

    • T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol II (1952).
    • Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution (1939)
    • Holmes, T. Rice, The Roman Republic and the Founder of the Empire, Vol. III (1923)
    Political offices
    Preceded by
    Gaius Norbanus Flaccus
    Roman consul
    38 BC (suffect)
    with Lucius Cornelius Lentulus
    Succeeded by