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:

Antonii (from the plebeian nobility)
Octavii (of Velitrae)
Appuleii (of Luna in Etruria)

II. C NEW PATRICIANS created by Augustus:

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
Q. Poppaeus Secundus
M. Salvius Otho
L. Seius Tubero
Q. Varius Geminus
M. Vipstanius Gallus
P. Vitellius
L. Volusius Proculus
(cos 17)
(cos suff. 16)
(cos 9)
(cos suff. 9)

(cos suff. 18)

(cos suff. 18)

(cos suff. 17)
(IV) Alfidius Sabinus
C. Ummidius Quadratus

(cos. ca. 40)

January 24, 2010 2:52 PM

John Paul Adams, CSUN
john.p.adams@csun.edu

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