Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus

Lucius Minucius Esquiline Augurinus ( † after 439 BC) was, according to tradition, a Roman politician in the 5th century BC

He belonged to the gens Minucia, an ancient Roman patrician family. His father was Publius Minucius Augurinus, the consul of the year 492 BC, and thus he was the brother of Quintus Minucius Esquiline, the BC reached the consulate in 457.

Lucius was in the year 458 BC Suffektkonsul as a colleague of Gaius Nautius Rutilus. During his tenure, he moved against the Aequians in the fight and was included on Algidus with his army, but Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus freed from the dictator.

In the year 450 BC Minucius was one of the decemviri. During this time, another defeat against the Aequians is handed down, but this could also be an interpolation from a later period.

In the years 440 and 439 BC, he was Prefect annonae and thus responsible for the grain supply of Rome. During a great famine in these two years the rich plebeians Spurius Maelius tried to buy grain through donations the favor of the people, after which he was accused of Minucius. For his services Minucius a statue was erected.

The consulates of Minucier are - so now unanimous opinion within the specialized science - to delete all of the consul lists, as they were later, probably BC, interpolated to 300. In the early phase of the Republic only patricians could reach the consulship, the assets Minucia but was clearly plebeian.