Quintus Fufius Calenus

Quintus Fufius Calenus († 40 BC ) was a Roman politician and trailers Gaius Julius Caesar.

Life

Fufius Calenus supported 62 Publius Clodius Pulcher BC in its defense in the Bona Dea scandal ( Clodius had gone on the day of the Bona Dea festival in women's clothes in the house of the Pontifex Maximus Caesar, ostensibly to meet his wife. He could be acquitted of bribery of jurors ). Calenus was 61 BC, tribune, two years later praetor. Shortly before the outbreak of the civil war he joined Gaius Julius Caesar, fought under him in Gaul 51 BC and 49 BC in Spain. After the battle of Pharsalia won 48 BC Calenus was sent back to Italy, where he would be failed on the way to the Adriatic Sea almost at Optimates Bibulus. 47 BC he held the consulate. After Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, Mark Antony Calenus supported against Octavian, the future Augustus. He lost four years later as a commander, a battle of the Alps against octavia African troops, in which he himself fell. His son, now commander struck on the side of Octavian.

Swell

• Caesar, De bello Gallico, 39
• Caesar, De bello civili, I: 87; II: 8, 14, 26, 55, 56, 106
• Cicero, Philippicae, 5, 8, 10, 12

• Consul ( Roman Republic )
• Born on the 2nd or 1st century BC
• Died 40 BC
• Man