Quintus Ligarius

Quintus Ligarius († 42 BC) was a politician and military of the late Roman Republic, supporters of the senatorial party in the civil war between Gaius Julius Caesar and Pompey.

As the legate Gaius propraetor Considius Longus Ligarius provisionally managed in the year 50 BC the province of Africa, while Longus in Rome applied to the consulate. After the outbreak of the civil war in the spring of 49 he let it happen, that the Pompeian Publius Varus Attius took over the province, and there mustered two legions. The members appointed by the Senate successor of Longus, Lucius Aelius Tubero, he refused, however, the landing in Africa. Even after the crushing defeat of Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus was Ligarius in Africa and continued the fight against the Caesarian. When Caesar had conquered in February 46, the province in the Battle of Thapsus, Ligarius was pardoned, but was not allowed to return to Rome. He was 46 end of Quintus, son of Lucius Aelius Tubero, accused the dictator Caesar with treason ( perduellio ), because he had fought with the declared enemy of the state Numiderkönig Juba I., and of Marcus Tullius Cicero in his extant speech Pro Q. Ligario successfully defended. With Caesar's permission back in Rome, located Ligarius joined the conspirators against the dictator. Probably he came together with them in the fighting after the assassination of Julius Caesar died.

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• Cicero: Three speeches before Caesar, lat.-dt. Trans. and ed. by Marion gable, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1999.