Marcus Herennius Picens (consul 34 BC)

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Marcus Herennius Picens (fl. 1st century BC) was a Roman senator who served as suffect consul in 34 BC, replacing Gaius Memmius and occupying the office from November 1 to the end of December.[1]

Authorities give slightly different versions of his name. T.R.S. Broughton and Ronald Syme refer to him simply as Marcus Herennius; however, K.M.T. Atkinson adds the cognomen Picens when she writes about him.

Biography

Herennius is a native of

Social War.[2]

How Herennius supported the cause of Caesar's heir Augustus is unclear; Syme includes his name in a list of several consuls "who have left no record of service to the rulers of Rome but, as sole and sufficient proof, the presence of their names upon the Fasti."[3] Despite this enigma, Herennius proceeded to the office of proconsular governor of Asia; although Broughton dated this to 33/32 BC,[4] Atkinson has argued 28/27 BC better fits.[5]

Herennius was the

Marcus Herennius Picens, suffect consul in AD 1.[7]

Sources

References

  1. ^ Broughton II, p. 411
  2. ^ Syme, p. 92
  3. ^ Syme, p. 200
  4. ^ Broughton II, p. 416
  5. Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte
    , 7 (1958), pp. 324f
  6. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, Vol. II, pp. 137-138
  7. ^ Broughton III, p. 101
Political offices
Preceded by
Suffect consul of the Roman Republic
34 BC
with Paullus Aemilius Lepidus
Succeeded by