Tillius Cimber

Lucius Tillius Cimber ( in the sources also Tullius Cimber ) was a Roman senator in the 1st century BC and one of the conspirators against Gaius Julius Caesar.

It is not clear whether Tillius Cimber is identical with the Roman Lucius Tillius, son of Lucius, who was 62 BC honored in Delphi. He was a follower of Caesar and perhaps 45 BC, during the dictatorship of Caesar, praetor, as he officiated in the following year as proconsul of the province of Bithynia et Pontus. For this office he was ( March 15, 44 BC ) nominated before the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March, in which Tillius Cimber played an important role: he is the dictator to spare his (otherwise little-known ) have asked exiled brother; as he dragged Caesar toga from the shoulder, this was the prearranged signal for the other assassins.

After the assassination Tillius broke into his province and put an army and a fleet. The following year he operated with fleet ( under the command of Decimus Turullius ) and Publius Cornelius Dolabella army against. In 42 BC, he commanded land and naval forces of the murderers of Caesar, with whom he occasionally scored successes against the triumvirs troops under Lucius and Gaius Decidius Saxa Norbanus Flaccus. He participated in the battles of Philippi, which ended with the defeat of Caesar's assassins. More news about Tillius Cimber are not available.

The Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca officials described him as a man, who was unduly " with wine and a dispute Hansel ". ( Letters to Lucilius, 83.12. ) It is thought that the epithet Cimber is not caused by a victory over the Cimbri, but to him this was added because of its trunk and strife.