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If a consul died during his year of office, another was elected to replace him. Although his imperium was the same as his predecessor's, he was termed consul suffectus, in order to distinguish him from the consul ordinarius whom he replaced; but the eponymous magistrates for each year were normally the consules ordinarii. [1] [2]
A consul was the highest elected public official of the Roman Republic (c. 509 BC to 27 BC). Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum—an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired—after that of the censor, which was reserved for former consuls. [1]
This is a list of Roman consuls, individuals who were either elected or nominated to the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic, or a high office of the Empire, but for whom an exact date of when they served in office is absent. Most are reckoned to be suffect consuls, but occasionally it encompasses an ordinary consul.
As this posting was consular in rank, it is therefore assumed that sometime prior to AD 230, he had been appointed suffect consul. [ 1 ] It is speculated that Faustus Paulinus either married a daughter of Sextus Cocceius Vibianus , consul suffectus sometime during the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD, or that he was the brother-in-law to a son ...
This category contains men who served only as suffect consuls; individuals who subsequently were ordinary consuls -- the one for whom the year was named -- belong in the category for Imperial Roman consuls.
Sempronia, the wife of Decimus Junius Brutus, consul in 77 BC. Gaius Sempronius Rufus, a friend of Cicero, was accused by Marcus Tuccius in 51 BC. [60] [61] Lucius Sempronius L. f. L. n. Atratinus, consul suffectus in 34 BC, was a friend of Cicero, and the prosecutor of Marcus Caelius Rufus, whom Cicero defended. [62] [63]
In AD 10, Cornelius and Quintus Junius Blaesus, were appointed consul suffectus in the place of Publius Cornelius Dolabella and Gaius Junius Silanus. Cornelius and Blaesus served from the kalends of July to the end of the year.
Elected consul designate in 100 BC, but was murdered on the day he was elected in a riot sparked by Gaius Servilius Glaucia and Lucius Appuleius Saturninus [5] 68 686 Servilius Vatia None: Consul suffectus designate, elected after the death of Lucius Caecilius Metellus, but died before taking office [6] 65 689 P. Cornelius Sulla, and P ...