Curio’s Lictors

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Curio’s Lictors
Konrad, C. F.

From the journal Hermes Hermes, Volume 150, December 2022, issue 4

Published by Franz Steiner Verlag

miscellaneous, 2673 Words
Original language: English
Hermes 2022, pp 497-501
https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2022-0031

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Curio’s six lictors with laureled fasces (Cic. Att. 10.4.9) are best explained by his holding command in 49 BC not as Caesar’s legatus, but pro praetore with imperium nominally in his own right, granted (‘extra-constitutionally’) by Caesar directly, without vote of Senate and People.

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C. F. Konrad

Keywords

C. Scribonius Curio | C. Iulius Caesar | M. Tullius Cicero | legatus | pro praetore | lictors

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