Augustus and the Senatorial Order

AUGUSTUS and the Senatorial Order Ruler: Legislation Julius Caesar (45 B.C.) Lex Cassia : Caesar granted the right to create new patricians Tacitus Annales XI. 25; Dio 43. 47. Augustus (33 B.C.) ?lex de plebeis in patricios adlegendis ? Dio 43. 47 speaks of Augustus creating patricians in this year by adlectio : this may be an error. Augustus (30 B.C.) Lex Saenia (Nov./Dec.) a lex rogata , sponsored by the consul suffect, C. Saenius, regulating the adlection of plebeians to the patriciate by means of a lex curiata Tacitus Annales XI. 25; Dio 52. 42.5; Res Gestae Divi Augusti 8. 1. Augustus Res Gestae Divi Augusti 8: "In my fifth consulship [29 B.C.], I increased the number of patricians by order of the People and the Senate. Three times I revised the Roll of Senators [29/28, 18, 13]. And in my sixth consulship [28 B.C.], with Marcus Agrippa as my colleague, I conducted a census of the People. I performed the lustrum after an interval of forty-two years; at this lustrum 4,063,000 Roman citizens were recorded. Then a second time, acting alone, by virtue of the consular power, I completed the taking of the census, in the consulship of C. Censorinus and C. Asinius [8 B.C.]; at this lustrum 4,233,000 Roman citizens were recorded. And a third time I completed the taking of the census, in the consulship of Sextus Pompeius and Sextus Appuleius [A.D. 14] by virtue of the consular power and with my son Tiberius as my colleague; at this lustrum 4,937,000 Roman citizens were recorded . . . . " CHANGES IN THE OLD ARISTOCRACY: EXTINCTIONS I. A Of the PATRICIAN FAMILIES represented in the Senate in 55 B.C., the following were extinct by 30 B.C.: Manlii Torquati Postumii Albini Servilii Caepiones Sulpicii Galli Sulpicii Rufi Valerii Flacci The Julii Caesares were extinct, except for Augustus. I. B Under Augustus, the following PATRICIAN FAMILIES became extinct: Claudii Pulchri Cornelii Scipiones I. C Under Tiberius, the following became extinct: Aemilii Scauri Quinctilii Vari Quinctilii Crispini ADDITIONS OR EXPANSIONS TO PATRICIAN FAMILIES II. A Under the Julio-Claudians, the following PATRICIAN FAMILIES experienced a resurgence: Aemilii Lepidi Claudii Nerones Cornelii Lentuli Dolabellae Cornelii Sullae Fabii Maximi Sulpicii Galbae Valerii Messallae II. B NEW PATRICIANS created by Julius Caesar: II. C NEW PATRICIANS created by Augustus: Antonii (from the plebeian nobility) Octavii (of Velitrae) Appuleii (of Luna in Etruria) Aelii Tuberones Domitii Ahenobarbi Sempronii Gracchi Junii Silani Statilii Tauri Vipsanii Agrippae Sentii Saturnini ? - - ius L. f. - - us (of Arretium) ADDITIONS OR EXPANSIONS TO PLEBEIAN FAMILIES III.A Of the Ancient PLEBEIAN NOBILITY, the following had become extinct by 30 B.C.: Junii Bruti Domitii Calvini Aurelii Cottae Marcii Philippi Minucii Rufi Acilii Glabriones Marcii Figuli Octavii Plautii Hypsaei Scribonii Curiones Volcatii Tulli III.B By the end of the reign of Augustus, the following families of PLEBEIAN NOBILITY were extinct: Tulii Cicerones Autronii Paeti Marcii Censorini Caecilii Metelli Terentii Varrones Cornelii Cinnae III.C By the end of the Julio-Claudian period, the following were also extinct: Sempronii Gracchi Calpurnii Bibuli Hortensii Hortali Servilii Vatiae Porcii Catones Gellii Poplicolae Pompeii (Strabones) Norbani Cassii Longini Domitii Ahenobarbi (Nero was the last.) Calpurnii Pisones Junii Silani INCREASES in the size of the SENATORIAL ORDER, by addition of NOVI HOMINES: PERIOD: NUMBER: DETAILS: (I) 44 B.C.—29 B.C. 133 108 certain, 25 probable (II) 28 B.C. —19 B.C. 23 5 certain, 18 probable (III) 18 B.C. —A.D. 3 41 19 certain, 22 probable (IV) A.D. 4 —A.D. 14 30 17 certain, 13 probable PERIOD: NEW MAN: CONSULSHIP: (II) P. Sulpicius Quirinius Lucilius Longus L. Passienus Rufus A. Vibius Habitus C. Vibius Postumus (cos 12) (cos suff. 4) (cos suff. 8) (cos suff. 5) (III) L. Pomponius Flaccus C. Pomponius Graecinus C. Poppaeus Sabinus (cos 17) (cos suff. 16) (cos 9) Q. Poppaeus Secundus M. Salvius Otho L. Seius Tubero Q. Varius Geminus M. Vipstanius Gallus P. Vitellius L. Volusius Proculus (IV) Alfidius Sabinus C. Ummidius Quadratus (cos suff. 9) (cos suff. 18) (cos suff. 18) (cos suff. 17) (cos. ca. 40)