Author(s):
Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum)
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Fündling, Jörg (Bonn)
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Müller, Christian (Bochum)
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Eck, Werner (Cologne)
Name of a Roman plebeian family, documented with certainty only from the 1st cent. BC on (T. [I 2] might be unhistorical). Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) I. Republican Period [German version] [I 1] T., C. Son of an ill-reputed (Cic. Phil. 13,23; the same as in Hor. Sat. 1,4,114?) Roman equestrian. In 58 BC [1], T. worked as
quaestor urbanus against P. Clodius' [I 4] switch to the
plebs . As tribune of the people in 55, he introduced laws that gave M. Licinius [I 11] Crassus and Cn. Pompeius [I 3] provincial terms of five years and extended Caesar's office in Gallia to the same length as well (Plut. Pompeius 52,4; Cass. Dio 39,33,2; 39,34,3). There, he was Caesar's legate from 54 to 49. In the Civil War, T. led the long siege of Massalia in 49 (Caes. B Civ. 2,1-16). In 48 as
praetor urbanus, he disrupted the intrigues of M. Caelius [I 4] Rufus. The garrison of the province of Hispania ulterior, which had been assigned to him, chased him off in the summer of 46. As early as in late 46, T. returned to Caesar's army. He supported his friend Cicero in the battle of styles against the extreme Atticists (Cic. Fam. 15,21,4). M. Antonius [I 9] was to claim later that T. had offered him a conspiracy against Caesar (Cic. Phil. 2,34). The fact that he stood in the dictator's favour - office of
cos. suff. in late 45 (InscrIt 13,1,500), designation to
procos. Asiae for 43 - did …