05-01-2019, 06:45 AM
Michael wrote:
The first centurion that Livy records as transitioning to tribune of the plebs comes in 472, when the centurion Volero Publilius, an ex-centurion who had previously successfully resisted being drafted into the army as a private soldier, was elected tribune of the plebs, supposedly holding the office again in 471.
There is also a military tribune in 399 BC named Volero Publilius (Livy 5 13 3). In the same manner as 473 BC, a Gaius Publilius, a centurion in 171 BC, is also threatened with scourging for not serving as a common soldier. Livy (42 32-34) Seems like recycled history, and Volero’s tribunate in 472 BC to 471 BC could have been invented so as to merge with the consulship of Appius Claudius and continue the theme of the bad Claudius’ family, which I found the same hate theme still going on in 143 BC.
The first centurion that Livy records as transitioning to tribune of the plebs comes in 472, when the centurion Volero Publilius, an ex-centurion who had previously successfully resisted being drafted into the army as a private soldier, was elected tribune of the plebs, supposedly holding the office again in 471.
There is also a military tribune in 399 BC named Volero Publilius (Livy 5 13 3). In the same manner as 473 BC, a Gaius Publilius, a centurion in 171 BC, is also threatened with scourging for not serving as a common soldier. Livy (42 32-34) Seems like recycled history, and Volero’s tribunate in 472 BC to 471 BC could have been invented so as to merge with the consulship of Appius Claudius and continue the theme of the bad Claudius’ family, which I found the same hate theme still going on in 143 BC.
