Lucius Clodius Macer

Lucius Clodius Macer († 68 ) was a legate of the Roman Empire in the province of Africa at the time of the Emperor Nero. He has served as legatus Augusti propraetore Africae responsible for the military and civilian control of the province of Africa. In the year 68 he revolted against the Emperor and cut this Rome of the grain supply and took the city of Carthage, the most important port in the province of Africa, a. Spurred on by Galba, Macer raised in addition to the legio III Augusta in Numidia, which he commanded already, the legio I Macriana from liberatrix; but excited in turn with Galba, who was the new emperor now, the suspicion of wanting to wear the purple itself, so this it, according to Tacitus before Galba's entry into Rome, the end of September or in the first part of October 68 by Trebonius Garutianus put to death. Plutarch reports condescending about him that he was little more than a robber and a murderer.

Macer was hit denarii in Carthage, which are extremely rare today. Only 85 have been preserved, of which only 20 carry his portrait. The reverse of the coin shows mostly a ship as a sign of his mastery of the seas or an eagle between two standards and the name of one of his legions.

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  • Tacitus, Histories 2,97,2; 4,49,4; 1,37,3; 1,7,1.
  • Plutarch, Galba 6.1 f
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