Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus (consul 472 BC)

Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office
1 August 472 BC [1] – 31 July 471 BC
Preceded byVopiscus Julius Iulus, Lucius Aemilius Mamercus
Succeeded byTitus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis (consul 471 BC)
Personal details
BornUnknown
Ancient Rome
DiedUnknown
Ancient Rome

Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus was a Roman politician during the 5th century BC, and was consul in 472 BC.

Biography

Consulship

In 472 BC, he was elected consul with Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus.[2] During their consulship, tribune of the plebs Volero Publilius proposed a law (Rogato Publilia) providing that plebeian tribunes should be elected by the Tribal Assembly, hoping to exclude patricians and their clients in the vote and deprive them of their influence under the resulting system.[a 1][a 2]

An inscription finds that during his consulship, a Vestal named either Orbinia or Sunia was put to death for the crime of incestum (sexual misconduct). The Vestals were expected to remain virgins, and a woman tending the sacred hearth of Vesta after losing her virginity was considered sacrilege.[3][a 3]

According to Varro, the "Lex Pinaria Furia of the intercalary month" is ascribed to Furius and Pinarius.[a 4] It mentions the method of additional days permitted to the dispenser of days which could be added to the calendar based on the lunar cycle.[2][4]

References

Modern sources

  1. ^ Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
  2. ^ a b Broughton 1951, p. 29
  3. ^ Broughton 1951, p. 30
  4. ^ King 2006, p. 27

Ancient sources

  1. ^ Livy, Roman History, II. 56
  2. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, IX. 40-42
  3. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, IX. 40.3-4
  4. ^ Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 13.21

Bibliography

Ancient authors

Modern authors

  • Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1951), The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Philological Monograph No. 15, New York: American Philological Association, ISBN 0-89130-811-3
  • King, Richard Jackson (2006), Desiring Rome: Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti, Ohio State University Press, ISBN 0-8142-1020-1
Political offices
Preceded by Consul of the Roman Republic
472 BC
with Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus 		Succeeded by