Gaius Aemilius Mamercus
Gaius Aemilius Mamercus was a Roman statesman who may have served as Dictator in 463 BC.[1][2]
| Gaius Aemilius Mamercus | |
|---|---|
| Dictator of the Roman Republic (Disputed) | |
| Reign | 463 BC |
Historical divergence
No dictator is listed for this year in the fasti consulares, but Lydus says that there was a Dictator in the forty-eighty year of the republic. Bendel links this with the story that the senate appointed a Dictator clavi figendi causa in 363 BC because that had worked to stop a pestilence a century earlier and concludes that Mamercus was this Dictator. Broughton sees this as an insufficient reason to say that Mamercus was dictator in 463 BC, and suggests that Lydus has confused a Dictator with an Interrex.[3]
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References
- Kaplan, Arthur (1977). Dictatorships and "ultimate" decrees in the early Roman Republic, 501-202 B.C. New York: Revisionist Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-87700-251-2.
- Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1951). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic: 99 B.C.-31 B.C. Philological monographs. Chico: Scholars Press. p. 527.
- Broughton, T. R. S. (1951). Magistrates of the Roman Republic. 1. New York: American Philological Association. p. 35 n.2.
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