Lucius Horatius Barbatus

Lucius Horatius Barbatus was a consular tribune of the Roman Republic in 425 BC.[1]

Horatius belonged to the Horatia gens, an ancient patrician family stretching back to the founding of the republic. Filiations indicate that his father was Marcus Horatius Barbatus, the consul of 449 BC.[2]

In 425 BC Horatius was elected together with Aulus Sempronius Atratinus, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus and Lucius Furius Medullinus as consular tribune. They succeeded with securing a twenty year truce with the Veii and a three year truce with the Aequi.[3][4] While his colleagues, Sempronius, Quinctius and Furius appear together in the ancient sources, Horatius is omitted from the college of tribunes presented by Diodorus Siculus.[5] This omission had lead several classicist scholars, such as Mommsen and Münzer, to conclude that Horatius is a fabrication and not an authentic holder of the office.[6][7][8]

As similar doubts exists in regards to the authenticity of Horatius father, the consul of 449 BC, it is unclear if this branch, Horatii Barbati, of the Horatia gens ever existed.[9]

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References
  1. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic, 1951, vol i, pp.67
  2. Broughton, vol i
  3. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, iv, 35.1-35.2
  4. Chronograph of 354; (Arretino et Mevulliano)
  5. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, xii, 80.1
  6. Mommsen. T., Römische Forschungen, 1864-1879, vol 2, pp.228
  7. Münzer. F., Real-Encyclopädie der classichen Altertumswissenchaft, 7
  8. Broughton, vol i, pp.67, note 1.
  9. Broughton, vol i, pp.47-50, note 1.
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