Gaius Norbanus Flaccus

Gaius Norbanus Flaccus was a politician of the late Roman Republic and 38 BC Consul.

Life

Gaius Norbanus Flaccus, whose father also led the praenomen Gaius was probably a son of around 83 BC Gaius proven mintmaster Norbanus and grandson of the consul of the same name from 83 BC

The first known official of Norbanus Flaccus ' cursus honorum is his praetorship, he BC (possibly as many as 44 BC) exercised 43. In this capacity he issued together with Lucius Cestius, a series of gold coins.

42 BC Flaccus Norbanus fought on the side of triumvir Mark Antony and Octavian ( later Emperor Augustus ) against Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Despite the superiority of the Republicans to sea succeeded Norbanus Flaccus and Lucius Decidius Saxa, around mid- 42 BC with a military vanguard of eight legions to sail through the Ionian Sea to Macedonia. They landed at the city's unguarded coast, marched along the Via Egnatia eastward over Thessalonica and Philippi to the river Nestos in Thrace and occupied the local coastal passports. But as they came upon opposing them withdrawing, numerically much stronger forces of Brutus and Cassius. During a squadron commanding murderers of Caesar Lucius Tillius Cimber undertook a landing maneuver in the south of the position of Norbanus Flaccus and Decidius Saxa, they were bypassed by the superior land army of the Republicans in the north on mountain paths. In time the subordinate generals of the triumvirs could recede by Amphipolis and maintain this position until there Antonius arrived with the main force. After Brutus and Cassius were defeated in two battles at Philippi by the triumvirs had committed suicide and (October / November 42 BC ), Norbanus Flaccus was the commander of the troops in place of the diseased Octavian.

In recognition of his services for the triumvirs services Norbanus Flaccus was allowed 38 BC occupy the consulate, where he had Appius Claudius Pulcher to the Official comrades. 36 BC Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus he broke off as governor of Spain and managed this country in the position of a proconsul BC present to 34 because of its out there successful fights, over the course of any messages he received permission on October 12, 34 BC to hold a triumph. Perhaps he founded in Spain Norba Caesarina, today's Cáceres.

From about 31 BC stood before Norbanus Flaccus the province of Asia. He sent letters to the magistrates of Sardis and Ephesus and told this is the Octavian's command that the Jews should not be prevented from discharging the temple tax to Jerusalem. In Pergamon him a statue was erected. Furthermore, his name is listed among the witnesses of a 25 Senatskonsults adopted BC with respect to the nearby city of Mytilene on Lesbos first.

Norbanus Flaccus had a son of the same, who also enjoyed the favor of Augustus 24 BC held the consulate.