Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi (consul 14 BC)

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Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi

. Frugi's adoptive father was the last known direct descendant of the triumvir who bore his name.

Life

Frugi served as a consul under the

Balearic islands indicates he was governor of Hispania Tarraconensis around 10 BC.[2] Another document shows he was proconsular governor of Africa for the term 9/8 BC.[3][4]

Frugi's father is unknown; however, he may have been Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi (who may have been praetor in 44 BC and could have been a legatus in 40 BC), and his paternal grandfather was Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus, consul in 61 BC.

Frugi, by an unnamed wife, had a son called Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, who served as consul in 27 who married Scribonia, a descendant of the triumvir Pompey, and a daughter called Licinia who married the consul of 27, Lucius Calpurnius Piso.

Sources

  1. JSTOR 298283
  2. ^ AE 1959, 317
  3. ^ AE 1951, 205
  4. ^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 276
Political offices
Preceded by
Roman consul
14 BC
with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Augur
Succeeded by