Quintus Marcius Philippus (consul 281 BC)

Quintus Marcius Philippus was a politician of the Roman Republic from the race of Marcii.

Life

According to the Fasti Capitolini the father and grandfather of Quintus Marcius Philippus also led the praenomen Quintus. That his father was probably the consul of 306 and 288 BC, Quintus Marcius Tremulus. Quintus Marcius Philippus reached 281 BC Lucius Aemilius Barbula together with the consulate, celebrated a triumph over the Etruscans and used for the first time proletarians as soldiers. 269 ​​BC he was censor with his colleague Lucius Aemilius Consulate Barbula. Finally, he acted 263 BC as Magister equitum Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus the dictator, whose task consisted in a century-old Nageleinschlagung. Instead of the epithet Tremulus his father he assumed the cognomen Philip, which was inherited by his descendants.