Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus

Marcus Piso Frugi Pupius Calpurnianus (c. 114 BC) was a politician of the late Roman Republic.

The form of the name shows that Piso was from the family of Calpurnii Pisones and was adopted by a Pupius. Piso was trained as a speaker at Staseas, a Peripatetic, and the famous Roman orator Lucius Licinius Crassus. He also taught; of a few years younger Marcus Tullius Cicero called Piso among his teachers. Later Cicero Piso was as a character in his dialogue De finibus bonorum et malorum occur and represent the Peripatetic doctrines.

Piso began his senatorial career ( cursus honorum ) with the bursary in the year 83 BC He was to serve under the Populares Consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio asiaticus, but refused. Well in 72 BC he was praetor. In the following three years 71-69 BC, he was proconsul in Spain ( probably the province of Hispania ulterior as the successor of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ). For military successes there, he received a triumph by the Senate. In 67 BC he was one of the legacies with proprätorischem Empire, which take precedence under Pompey against the pirates. Piso was doing the command to the Propontis and the Bosphorus. He also served in the following years under Pompey; for the year 63 BC, he is mentioned as legate at the siege of Jerusalem.

In 62 BC Pompey demanded to postpone the consular elections for the following year, so that his legacy Piso could apply to be a candidate ( it is unclear whether this requirement has been met). Piso became the office and was with Marcus Valerius Messala Niger consul in 61 BC He had against his will for the establishment of a special court against the accused Publius Clodius of iniquity ensure Pulcher. He lost his political support and actually did not get the desired province of Syria.

You may Pupius Piso was after the outbreak of civil war in 49 BC again legate of Pompey and recruited troops on Delos, but there were believed to be his son Marcus Piso Pupius.