Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus (consul 472 BC)

{{Short description|Roman politician, consul in 472 BC}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus

| image =

| birth_date = Unknown

| birth_place = Ancient Rome

| death_date = Unknown

| death_place = Ancient Rome

| office = Consul of the Roman Republic

| term_start = 1 August 472 BC Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.

| term_end = 31 July 471 BC

| alongside = Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus

| predecessor = Vopiscus Julius Iulus, Lucius Aemilius Mamercus

| successor = Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis (consul 471 BC)

| children =

}}

Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus was a Roman politician during the 5th century BC, and was consul in 472 BC.

Biography

=Consulship=

In 472 BC, he was elected consul with Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus.{{harvnb|Broughton|1951|p=29}} During their consulship, tribune of the plebs Volero Publilius proposed a law (Rogato Publilia) providing that plebeian tribunes should be elected by the Tribal Assembly, hoping to exclude patricians and their clients in the vote and deprive them of their influence under the resulting system.Livy, Roman History, II. 56Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, IX. 40-42

An inscription finds that during his consulship, a Vestal named either Orbinia or Sunia was put to death for the crime of incestum (sexual misconduct). The Vestals were expected to remain virgins, and a woman tending the sacred hearth of Vesta after losing her virginity was considered sacrilege.{{harvnb|Broughton|1951|p=30}}Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, IX. 40.3-4

According to Varro, the "Lex Pinaria Furia of the intercalary month" is ascribed to Furius and Pinarius.Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 13.21 It mentions the method of additional days permitted to the dispenser of days which could be added to the calendar based on the lunar cycle.{{harvnb|King|2006|p=27}}

References

=Modern sources=

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=Ancient sources=

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Bibliography

=Ancient authors=

=Modern authors=

  • {{citation|first=Thomas Robert Shannon|last=Broughton|authorlink=Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton|title=The Magistrates of the Roman Republic|publisher=American Philological Association|series=Philological Monograph No. 15|year=1951|location=New York|isbn=0-89130-811-3}}
  • {{citation|first=Richard Jackson|last=King|title=Desiring Rome: Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti|publisher=Ohio State University Press|year=2006|isbn=0-8142-1020-1}}

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{{s-bef|before=Vopiscus Julius Iulus,
and Lucius Aemilius Mamercus III}}

{{s-ttl|title=Consul of the Roman Republic|years=472 BC|regent1=Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus}}

{{s-aft|after=Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus,
and Appius Claudius Sabinus}}

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Category:5th-century BC Roman consuls

Mamercinus Rufus, Lucius