Gaius Coelius Caldus
O: head of Gaius Coelius Caldus, standard inscribed HIS behind and standard in the form of a boar (emblem of Clunia, Hispania) in front C·COEL·CALDVS COS | R: statue of god seated left between two trophies of arms, all on a high lectisternium with front inscribed: L·CALDVS VII·(VIR)·EP(VL), C·CALDVS on left, IMP·(AV)·X on right, C(ALD)VS III VIR below |
Silver denarius struck by Gaius Coelius Caldus' grandson in Rome 51 BC. Moneyer commemorates his grandfather Gaius Coelius Caldus and other two ancestors: L. Coelius Caldus, Septemvir Epulones and C. Coelius Caldus, Augur, Imperator and member of Decemviri sacris faciundis. |
Gaius Coelius Caldus, nomen also spelled Caelius,[1] was a consul of the Roman Republic in 94 BC alongside his colleague Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
In 107 BC, Coelius Caldus was elected tribune of the plebs and passed a lex tabellaria, which ordained that in the courts of justice the votes should be given by means of tables in cases of high treason.[2] Cicero stated that Caldus regretted this law as having been the source of injury to the republic.[3] He was a praetor in 100 or 99 BC, and proconsul of Hispania Citerior the following year.[4] During Sulla's second civil war he tried in conjunction with Gaius Carrinas and Brutust help Gaius Marius the Younger by preventing Pompey from joining his forces to Sulla, but failed.[3]
Coelius' portrait appears on a small series of Roman silver coins from the late republic.[5] Some of his coins feature the boar emblem of Clunia.[6]
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References
- ↑ These are variants of the same name: William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. I, p. 532
- ↑ William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. I, p. 561
- 1 2 Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. 1. Boston, Little. p. 561.
- ↑ T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, pp. 1 and 3 (note 2).
- ↑ http://www.moneymuseum.com/frontend/coins/periods/coin.jsp?lang=en&i=96767&pid=4529201&gid=51&cid=179&pi=-1&ps=10
- ↑ Broughton, MRR2, p. 3.
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Preceded by Lucius Licinius Crassus and Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus 94 BC |
Succeeded by Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Marcus Herennius |