Spurius Mummius
Spurius Mummius was a Roman soldier and writer. He was a legatus of his brother Lucius Mummius in Corinth in 146 BC and 145 BC and a close friend of Scipio Aemilianus. This friendship garnered his entrance into the Scipionic Circle.
Spurius Mummius
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- Spurius Mummius was born in 199 BC. · Ancient Rome.
- Died
- Spurius Mummius died in 101 BC. · Rome.
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- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- writer · military personnel
- Languages
- Latin
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Spurius Mummius was a Roman soldier and writer. He was a legatus of his brother Lucius Mummius in Corinth in 146 BC and 145 BC and a close friend of Scipio Aemilianus. This friendship garnered his entrance into the Scipionic Circle.
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Politically, he was an aristocrat. He wrote satirical and ethical epistles, describing his experiences in Corinth in humorous verse. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, these letters, which were still popular a hundred years later, were the first examples of a distinct class of Roman poetry, the poetic epistle.
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- 1.Cicero, ad Atticum 13,5,1; 6,4; 30,2; vgl. T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates of the Roman Republic 1: 509–100 B.C. (= Philological Monographs. Band 15,1). American Philological Association, New York 1951, S. 468.
- 2.Iustinus 38,8,8-11; Cicero, De re publica 3,48. Vgl. T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates of the Roman Republic 1: 509–100 B.C. (= Philological Monographs. Band 15,1). American Philological Association, New York 1951, S. 481 (mit den weiteren Quellen).
- 3.Siehe : „Er hat es im Staatsdienst höchstens bis zur Praetur gebracht [...].“
- 4.Siehe Cicero, Laelius 69; 101; M. Tullius Cicero: Der Staat. Lateinisch – Deutsch. Hrsg. und übers. von Rainer Nickel (Sammlung Tusculum). Artemis & Winkler, Mannheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-538-03521-8, S. 11 (Einleitung von Rainer Nickel).
- 5.Cicero, De re publica 1,18.
- 6.Cicero, De re publica 3,46-48.
- 7.Cicero, De re publica 5,11 = Nonius 521,12.
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