Marcus Geganius Macerinus

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Marcus Geganius Macerinus
Gaius Julius Iulus (consul 447 BC)
Preceded byLars Herminius Aquilinus,
Lucius Julius Iulus (consul 430 BC), Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Succeeded byLucius Papirius Crassus, Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis
Personal details
BornUnknown
Ancient Rome
DiedUnknown
Ancient Rome

Marcus Geganius Macerinus was a

Consul in 447, 443, and 437 BC, and as Censor in 435 BC.[2]

Family

Geganius came from the rather small

consular tribunes in 378 and 367 BC respectively.[3]

Career

Geganius was elected as consul in 447 BC together with

Gaius Julius Iulus. According to Livy, he and his colleague concerned themselves with easing the tensions between the classes. They also carried out a war against the Volscians.[4][5][6][7]

Geganius held the consulship for a second time in 443 BC, this time together with another repeated consular,

Volscian attacks and made Cloelius, the Volscian commander, his prisoner. For this he was awarded and celebrated a triumph. A new magistrate was created during this year, that of the censorship, to free the consuls from the holding of the census and to focus on military affairs.[8][9][10][11][12]

Geganius held a third and final consulship in 437 BC with first time consul

Marcus Valerius Lactuca Maximus. The year would see further changes within the Roman leadership as a dictator, Mamercus Aemilius Mamercinus, was appointed. Aemilius successfully fought the Veii, Falerii and Fidenae.[13][14][15]

Geganius' last known major magistracy is that of censor in 435 BC together with Gaius Furius Pacilus Fusus. They approved the construction of the Villa Publica in the Campus Martius and when finished they completed the census there. A new law was approved during their censorship which limited the term to one and a half year, down from the previous term of five years. The classicist scholar Mommsen argues that with the erection and approval of the Villa Publica that Geganius and Furius should be considered the first historically authentic censors.[16][17][18]

Geganius would later serve under the dictator Aulus Postumius Tubertus, fighting against the Aequi and Volsci at Mount Algidus in 431 BC; he might have served as a Legatus, but his exact title and role in the fighting is not known.[19][20]

See also

  • Gegania (gens)

References

  1. ^ Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
  2. ^ Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic, 1951, vol i, pp.50-51, 53, 58, 61
  3. ^ Broughton, vol i
  4. Ab urbe condita
    , iii.65; 5-11
  5. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, xii, 29.1
  6. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, xi, 51.1
  7. ^ Broughton, vol i, pp.50-51
  8. ^ Livy, iv, 8.1-8.7, 10.9
  9. ^ Diodorus, xii, 33.1
  10. ^ Dionysius, xi, 63.1-63.3
  11. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares, ix, 21.2
  12. ^ Broughton, vol i, pp.53-54
  13. ^ Livy, iv, 17.7-20.4
  14. ^ Diodorus, xii, 43.1
  15. ^ Broughton, vol i, pp.58-59
  16. ^ Livy, iv, 22.7, 24.4-24.9
  17. ^ Mommsen, T, Römisches Staatsrecht, vol 2, pp. 334f
  18. ^ Broughton, vol i, pp.61
  19. ^ Livy, iv, 27-28
  20. ^ Broughton, vol i, pp.63-64
Political offices
Preceded by
Gaius Julius Iulus
 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Consul of the Roman Republic
443 BC
with Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus
V 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Military Tribunes with Consular power
Consul of the Roman Republic
437 BC
with Lucius Sergius Fidenas
 Succeeded by
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