ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

What this geographical distribution of commissioners suggests is that, whereas Scullard'spolitical factions might not have evinced colonial policies, his family groupings oralliances had definite regional interests that they pursued even when it meant cooperatingwith opposing factions on the colonial commissions for those regions. Used with caution,these observations open up the question of whether the personal or familial interests ofindividual triumviri might have had a regional focus, based not on political alliance buton their own actions and well-attested connections.Regional Concerns among the Colonial CommissionersTwo principal factors dictated the regional focus of certain colonial commissioners: 1)military experience in the area, and 2) family connections to the region. The first of thesefactors is illustrated perhaps most vividly by M. Aemilius Lepidus, who possessed theconsular province of Liguria in 187 and built a highway from Placentia to Ariminumwhile on campaign.Lepidus was subsequently on the board to establish Mutina andParma (183) and Luna (177), and he led a commission often men for the viritanedistribution of the ager of the Statielli and Boii (173), and founding Regum Lepidumwent to Africa with him in 193 (Scullard (1951), pp. 104, 121) and M. Furius Crassipes; according toScullard, he was possibly Scipionic because Furius Purpureo was (Scullard (1951), p. 141) Mutina andParma (183): M. Aemilius Lepidus was Scipionic until his reconciliation with Fulvius Nobilior in 179(Scullard (1951), pp. 94, 120, 124, 143 et al.) Aquileia(183): P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, also oncommission for Venusia in 200 (see above) and C. Flaminius, who was quaestor to Africanus in Spain andhis father was Scipionic. The son also perhaps Fulvian (see above note 99) (Scullard (1951), pp. 54, 120,140f. Cf. Cassola (1962), p. 378 who criticizes Scullard's conclusion of alliance between Flaminius, theAemilii, and the Scipiones based on a coincidence of offices.) Luna (177): P. Aelius Tubero was perhapsone of the members of the Scipionic group among the commission to Asia in 189 (Scullard (1951), p. 137nl.) According to Scullard, L. Aemilius Lepidus was by this time allied with the Fulvii and so should notcount here (p. 180 ff.)102 Livy 39.2.80