HumanitiesClassicsHistoryAncient HistoryConsular LawRoman HistoryConsular HistoryLate AntiquityAppointment Of Consuls
The effort of the aedilicius C.Iulius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus to gain a consulship has been controversial as well as insufficiently understood1). First, the date. Did Caesar Strabo, in fact, make his attempt in 89 or in 88 (for a consulship of the following year)? Although some still favor 88, I believe that Prof. Badian has decisively established 89 as the correct year2). More recently, however, Lintott has reasserted the claims of 88 3). Let us briefly re-examine the two passages at issue. First, Diodorus 37. 2. 12-134). The initial clause of Diodorus,