Gaius Mamilius Limetanus

Denarius issued in 82 BC by a son of the same name, with the depiction of Mercury and Ulysses walking with faithful Argus the dog alluding to the family's mythology of descent from Telegonus, a son of Ulysses and Circe[1]

Gaius Mamilius Limetanus was Roman Republican politician who served as one of the plebeian tribunes for 109 BC.[2]

Limetanus established a court, the Mamilian commission, to prosecute those who abetted the Numidian king Jugurtha and had taken bribes from him.[3] The court convicted five men and sent them into exile.

He also may have passed a law regulating the use of agricultural land.[4] In 91 BC , he may have served as one of the decemviri agris dandis assignandis, a ten-man commission for implementing the land grants following Marcus Livius Drusus' agricultural laws.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Evans 1992, p. 27.
  2. ↑ Broughton 1951, p. 546.
  3. ↑ Broughton 1951, p. 546, citing Sallust, Iugurtha 40.
  4. ↑ Broughton 1951, p. 546, citing Cicero, Brutus, 127–28.
  5. ↑ Broughton 1952, p. 23.

Bibliography

  • Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1951). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 1. New York: American Philological Association.
  • Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1952). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association.
  • Evans, Jane DeRose (1992). The Art of Persuasion: Political Propaganda from Aeneas to Brutus. University of Michigan Press.
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