Spurius Veturius Crassus Cicurinus (consular tribune 417 BC)

Spurius Veturius Crassus Cicurinus was (possibly) a consular tribune of the Roman Republic in 417 BC.[1]

This article is about the consular tribune of 417 BC. For other people named Veturii Crassii, see Veturia gens.

Veturius belonged to the Veturia gens, one of the oldest patrician families with ties to the time of the kings. Veturius was the son of Spurius Veturius Crassus Cicurinus, identified by Livy and Dionysius as decemviri in 451 BC. Veturius was probably the grandfather or uncle to the consular tribune of 399 BC Marcus Veturius Crassus Cicurinus, depending on if the father of the consular, the otherwise unattested Tiberius Veturius Crassus Cicurinus, was Veturius brother or son.[2]

Career

Veturius first held the imperium in 417 BC as one of four consular tribunes. His colleagues in the office were Publius Lucretius Tricipitinus, Agrippa Menenius Lanatus and Gaius Servilius Axilla. His colleagues had all previously held the imperium, with Menenius and Servilius being former consuls. Little is known of the events during the year. Veturius, it can be assumed, would have been occupied in his role as consular tribune by the many conflicts that Rome were embroiled in during this period in time, such as the war with the Aequi and rising tension in regards to calls for new Agrarian laws by the tribunes of the plebs.[3][4][5][6]

Veturius or Rutilius?

There exists some conflicting traditions in regards to the identification of the members in the consular college in 417 BC. The sources agree that the college consisted of Lucretius, Menenius and Servilius (the major conflict being in regards to with whom, if any, among the previous holders of the imperium they can be identified with) but are in disagreement in regards to the fourth member of the college. Diodorus lists the fourth member as Veturius while Livy has Spurius Rutilius Crassus. The modern scholar Broughton argues for the choice of Veturius on the basis that the first other attested Rutilii appear 250 years later and that the gens saw no use of the praenomen Spurius nor the cognomen Crassus.[4][5][7]

See also

References
  1. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic, 1951, vol i, pp.72-74, 76-77
  2. Broughton, vol i
  3. Chronograph of 354 (Tricipitino et Structo III)
  4. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, iv. 47.7
  5. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, xiii 7.1
  6. Broughton, vol i, pp.73
  7. Broughton, vol i, pp.73, note 2
Political offices
Preceded by
Lucius Sergius Fidenas
Marcus Papirius Mugillanus
Gaius Servilius Axilla		 Military Tribunes with Consular power
with Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, Gaius Servilius Axilla,
and Publius Lucretius Tricipitinus
417 BC		 Succeeded by
Aulus Sempronius Atratinus
Marcus Papirius Mugillanus
Quintus Fabius Vibulanus
Spurius Nautius Rutilus
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