Quintus Hortensius (dictator)
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Quintus Hortensius was an ancient Roman, appointed to the office of dictator in the year 287 BC.
When the people, pressed by their patrician creditors, "seceded" to the
dies fasti
(days on which legal business might be transacted), is also attributed to him.
He is said to have died while still in office,[1] thus making him one of two dictators to die in office in history, the other being Julius Caesar.
Sources
- Aulus Gellius xv. 27
- Pliny, Nat. Hist. xvi. 15
- Macrobius, Saturnalia i. 16
- Livy, Epit. ii.
References
- ^ Julius Obsequens, Periochae of Livy, 11.11
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hortensius, Quintus (dictator)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 741.
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