ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

Q. Fabius Labeo (Potentia and Pisaurum, 184, and Saturnia 183), and M. AemiliusLepidus (Parma and Mutina, 183 and Luna 177). Of these, L. Valerius Flaccus and M.Aemilius Lepidus served in the college together from 196; they were joined in 180 by Q.Fabius Labeo, well after his colonial foundations.The augures were P. Aelius Paetus and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus (Narnia, 199), M.Servilius Geminus and T. Sempronius Longus (Volturnum, Liternum, Puteoli, Salernum,Buxentum, 197-194), and L. Aemilius Paulus (Croton, 194). Of these men, P. AeliusPaetus, Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, M. Servilius Geminus, and perhaps T. Sempronius1 RLongus and T. Sempronius Gracchus were augurs together from before 200. L.Aemilius Paulus joined them in 192, after he helped to establish Croton. Between thepontiffs and augurs, these men are spread over six out of twenty two colonialcommissions between 338 and 169, leaving aside, of course, those men who were not yetpriests at the time they helped establish their colony.There were also three decimviri sacris faciundis on colonial commissions: C.Papirius Maso (possible commissioner for the second attempt to establish Placentia andCremona in 218 - Cf. Gargola (1990)), T. Sempronius Longus (maritime colonies of 194,It is interesting to note that over half of the nine augurs during the early second century were oncommissions to found colonies; another augur during this period was L. Quinctius Flamininus, brother tothe commissioner for Venusia (200). Scullard (1951), p. 80 n. 5 posits cooperation among four of thesemen (M. Servilius Geminus, Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, P. Aelius Paetus, and Ti. Sempronius Gracchus) todelay the elections for 201. By 179, the augural college contained L. Aemilius Paulus, P. Aelius Paetus, M.Servilius Geminus, Ti. Sempronius Longus, and probably T. Sempronius Gracchus, all of whom werecolonial commissioners, as well as the relatives of commissioners L. Quinctius Flamininus, C. ClaudiusPulcher (brother of P. Claudius Pulcher on commissions for Cales (185) and Graviscae (181)), and P.Scipio (son of Africanus, who perhaps was instrumental in the foundation of the maritime colonies of 194)(cf. Scullard pp. 179-180 n. 4). The ninth augur is unknown (cf. Rttpke (2005), Vol. 1 p. 87) butnonetheless, these men and their families show an obvious interest in both the priesthood and colonization.This suggests that both provided a certain level of prestige and advantage to ambitious men. Cf. Hahm(1963), pp. 75-76 for the assertion that the augurate was the most prestigious priesthood.276