Quintus Minucius Thermus (consul 193 BC)

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Quintus Minucius Thermus (died 188 BC) was a Roman statesman and military commander.[1]

In 202, Minucius Thermus may have been the military tribune named Thermus who served in Africa under Scipio Africanus.[2] As a tribune of the plebs in 201, Thermus and his fellow tribune Manius Acilius Glabrio opposed the desire of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus to have Africa as his consular province.[3] Thermus was also responsible for legislation confirming peace with Carthage after the Second Punic War.[4] His actions may reflect on the earlier connection with Scipio, whose imperium in Africa was extended into 201 so he could finalize the treaty, as a result of which he received the cognomen Africanus.

Minucius Thermus was

Buxentum.[5]

As praetor in 196, he was assigned to Hispania Citerior ("Nearer Spain").[6] He was possibly acting as proconsul when his military success at Turda in Spain, where he defeated the Turboletae people, gained him the honor of a triumph.[7]

Thermus was elected

M. Cincius Alimentus. His command was extended for the following year, during which time he defeated the Ligurian forces near Pisa.[9] He remained as proconsul in Liguria for 191–190, until he was instructed by the senate to transfer command to Scipio Nasica. He was denied a triumph upon return.[10]

In 189–188, Thermus took part in the ten-man commission (decemviri) who assisted the proconsul Manlius Vulso in concluding the treaty with Antiochus III and making a settlement in Asia.[11] Thermus went with Manlius to administer the oath that ratified the treaty.[12] He was killed while returning through Thrace with Manlius.[13]

References

  1. T.R.S. Broughton
    , The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, pp. 318, 320, 334, 335, 341, 346, 349, 351, 354, 357, 363, 364–365 (notes 6 and 7), 367; vol. 2 (1952), p. 592.
  2. ^ Appian, Lib. 36; Broughton points out that Friedrich Münzer accepts the testimony of Appian, despite questions of reliability.
  3. ^ Livy 30.40.9–16.
  4. ^ Livy 30.43.2–3; Polybius 15.18–19; Cassius Dio frg. 57.82–83; Zonaras 9.14.
  5. ^ Livy 32.29.3–4 and 34.45.2; Velleius Paterculus 1.15.2.
  6. ^ Livy 33.24.2, 26.1–4 and 43.7–8.
  7. ^ Livy 33.44.4–5; 34.10.5–7.
  8. ^ Livy 34.55.6 and 56.3–7, 35.3.1–6 and 6.1–4 and 11.1–13; MRR1 p. 346.
  9. ^ Livy 35.20.6; 35.21.7–11.
  10. ^ Livy 36.38.1–4 and 40.2; 37.2.5; 37.46.1–2.
  11. Q. Minucius Rufus: Diplomatic missions. Broughton notes that Appian (Syrian War 39) is mistaken in calling Thermus a chiliarch
    (χιλίαρχος) as a Greek equivalent of his Roman rank.
  12. ^ Polybius 21.43.1–2; Livy 38.39.1.
  13. ^ Livy 38.41.3, 46.7 and 49.8.
Political offices
Preceded by
Roman consul
193 BC
With: L. Cornelius Merula
 Succeeded by
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