Roman Priestly Colleges

ROMAN PRIESTLY COLLEGES ca. 59 B.C. THE PONTIFICES Member status enter exit C. IULIUS CAESAR (Pontifex Maximus 63-44) Patrician 73 44 P. SERVILIUS VATIA ISAURICUS Plebeian before 76 44 M. TERENTIUS VARRO LUCULLUS Plebeian before 76 56/4 Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS CRETICUS Plebeian before 76 57/54 M'. ACILIUS GLABRIO Plebeian before 76 57/54 M. VALERIUS MESSALA Patrician ca. 79/76 . SEX. QUINTILIUS VARUS ? Patrician 73/69 59 ? *L. CORNELIUS LENTULUS (Flamen Martialis) Patrician 73/69 56 P. SULPICIUS GALBA Patrician ca. 69 . Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS SCIPIO Plebeian 64/63 46 C. FANNIUS Plebeian 64/63 ? 48 M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS (Pontifex Maximus 44-13) Patrician 62 ? 13 P. CORNELIUS LENTULUS SPINTHER Patrician 62, 60 or 59 47/46 *L. CLAUDIUS (Rex Sacrorum) Patrician 62/60 . M. AEMILIUS SCAURUS Patrician 60 ? 52 M. LICINIUS CRASSUS Plebeian 60 ? 49/48 C. SCRIBONIUS CURIO Plebeian 60 ? 53 *SEX. IULIUS CAESAR (Flamen Quirinalis) Patrician 60/58 46 Notes The three highest ranking state priests (*) were closely associated with the College of Pontiffs and sometimes took part in their activities. Macrobius Saturnalia 3. 13.11. Cicero Harusp. resp. 12. L. R. Taylor, American Journal of Philology 63 (1942) 385-412. T. R. S Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic II, pp. 205-206. THE COLLEGE OF AUGURS Member status enter exit M. AEMILIUS SCAURUS Patrician . 90/87 Q. MUCIUS SCAEVOLA Plebeian . 89/81 M. ANTONIUS Plebeian . 87 C. MARIUS Plebeian 97 86 L. CORNELIUS SULLA FELIX Patrician 88 78 L. IULIUS CAESAR Patrician before 69 after 42 Q. HORTENSIUS HORTALUS Plebeian before 67 50 AP. CLAUDIUS PULCHER Patrician before 63 46 CN. POMPEIUS MAGNUS Plebeian ca. 61 48 C. CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS Patrician . before 44 M. VALERIUS MESSALA (cos. 53) Patrician for 55 yrs. . Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS CELER Plebeian before 63 59 L. LICINIUS LUCULLUS Plebeian . 56 FAUSTUS CORNELIUS SULLA Patrician before 57 46 Q. CASSIUS LONGINUS Plebeian before 55 46 L. MARCIUS PHILIPPUS Plebeian 56 after 33 P. CORNELIUS LENTULUS SPINTHER Patrician 57 ca. 42 P. LICINIUS CRASSUS Plebeian 56 53 M. TULLIUS CICERO Plebeian 53 43 SER. SULPICIUS GALBA Patrician before 49 43 ? Q. MUCIUS SCAEVOLA Plebeian before 49 . M. ANTONIUS Plebeian 50 31 P. SERVILIUS VATIA ISAURICUS Plebeian 47 after 41 P. VATINIUS Plebeian 46 after 42 Notes: Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic II, pp. 254-255. C. Bardt, Die Priester der vier grossen Collegien aus römischrepublikanischer Zeit (Berlin 1871), 22-26. THE QUINDECEMVIRI SACRIS FACIUNDIS, ca. 90-44 B.C. Member status enter exit Q. POMPEIUS RUFUS (cos. 88) Plebeian . 88 ? C. COELIUS CALDUS (monetal ca. 100) . . . P. GABINIUS (pr. 89) . in 76 . M. OTALICIUS . in 76 . L. VALERIUS . in 76 . L. MANLIUS TORQUATUS (pr. 49) . before 69 46 M. PORCIUS CATO Plebeian before 64 46 ? M. LICINIUS CRASSUS (cos.70, 55) Plebeian . 53 L. AURELIUS COTTA (cos. 65) Plebeian in 44 . P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA (cos. 44) Plebeian 51 43 C. CASSIUS LONGINUS (pr. 44) Plebeian . 42 Notes Lily Ross Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Caesar , pp. 94 and 215, nn. 49-50. C. Bardt, Die Priester der vier grossen Collegien aus römischrepublikanischer Zeit (Berlin 1871), 30-31.