Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 112 BC)

Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus († 107 BC) came from the Roman family of the plebeian Calpurnier and was 112 BC consul.

Life

Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus was probably a son of the consul of 148 BC the same about the early offices of his cursus honorum nothing is known. 112 BC he reached the Consulate together with Marcus Livius Drusus. Presumably then as proconsul, perhaps even during his praetorship or his consulship, he was probably governor of Cisalpine Gaul. After his return, he was indicted for alleged extortion.

107 BC took Piso in the position of a legate on a campaign of consul Lucius Cassius Longinus in part, who had received Gallia Narbonensis as a province and should fight the Cimbri and their allies. However, the Roman army suffered in the Battle of Agen a heavy defeat against the Helvetic tribe of Tigurini; Piso and the consul fell in this battle.