Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus

Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus (v. 510/v. 420 av. J. - C.) was a politician of the Roman République, member of the people Quinctia , which was six times Consul in 471, 468, 465, 446, 443 and 439 av. J. - C.

First Consul At (471)

He is elected Consul at the side of Appius Claudius Sabinus, this last chosen by the Sénat, because of the hostility which his/her father expressed with the Plèbe. As the Patricien S wish it, Appius Claudius Sabinus is opposed to the powerful orators, which want to make vote a law founding the election of the powerful orators of the plebs by the assembly of the plebeian ones, tribe by tribe, by excluding the vote from the Patricien S. This would reinforce the representativeness of the powerful orators and would prevent the patricians from influencing their designation.

The riot thunders, that the Consul Quinctius manages of accuracy to calm while being addressed to the population in a way more reconciling, and by obliging Claudius to fold up itself in the Curie.

Another law opposes rich Patricien S to the people carried out by the Tribuns of the plebs, law whose vote is unceasingly pushed back by the Sénat. The powerful orators require a better distribution of the Ager publicus , monopolized by richest.

Attentive with the political agitation which weakens the Romains, their enemies Volsques and Èques carry out raids on the Roman territory. Quinctius receives the command against the Èques while Claudius order against the Volsques.

Furious to have had to yield in front of the powerful orators of the plebs, Claudius treats its soldiers, resulting from the Plèbe, with authority and brutality. Those refuse the combat on line and flee in disorder when the Volsques attack it. Demolishes militarily, Claudius exerts the most severe sanctions while making whip and decapitate all graded which left their rows, and by making decimate the remainder of the soldiers. It will be put in charge at the end of its mandate for its opposition to the agrarian law and the Tribuns of the plebs, but will die before the end of its lawsuit.

Other side, countryside against Èques unrolls without dissensions between general and his army, and Èques, which had hoped that mutinies burst, last abandoned their territory with the devastations of the Romains. The Consul Quinctius leaves all the benefit of plunderings to its men, and returns to Rome with glory and reconciliation between the Plèbe and the senatorial order.

Second Consul At (468)

The Plebs and the Patriciat still fight, in connection with an agrarian law, and the people refuse to take consular share with the elections. The Patrician S and their customers elect Quinctius for the second time, with for colleague Quintus Servilius Priscus. Once again, a war bursts and mobilizes the people, putting temporarily fine at the internal dissensions. The Sabins go on Rome while the Volsques are agitated. The Consul Servilius pushes back the Sabins and continues them, whereas his/her Quinctius colleague carries out his men against the Volsques.

The Consul carries out skilfully his men, fewer than the enemy, and using several tricks, succeeds in avoiding a disaster.

It makes go its army against the volsque capital , Antium, which go after a court sits, the enemy being cut down after their defeat.

Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, in order to avoid a new internal crisis, proposes to equip Antium, city recently taken with the Volsques and located in seaside, of a Roman colony. Thus, the people could receive grounds. Titus Quinctius, with Aulus Verginius and Publius Furius, two others Consul surfaces, are named Triumvir and are charged with dividing the grounds between the voluntary colonists. According to Tite-Live, there were very few volunteers and one had to associate Volsques with the Roman volunteers to supplement the colony Antium, at the side of Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus. Overcome at the time of an arranged battle, the Èques make a raid in Roman territory to plunder and devastate, carrying fear among the Romains.

Titus Quinctius, remained in Rome, reassures the people and takes the weapons to face the plunderers. The latter are then massacred by his/her returned colleague of the face, and all the fruit of plunderings is taken again, and it would be thus the first case of " Promagistrat ure".

With the camp, the Romains are driven back, the wounded Consul. Titus Quinctius arrives with its army of allied behind the Èques, and the army Consul surface, in a last effort, operates an exit. The Romains encircle and overcome their enemies.

The lawsuit of Céson Quinctius (461)

In 462 av. J. - C., whereas the Consul S lead the armies to the war against the Volsques and the Èques, the Tribun of the plebs Gaius Terentilius Harsa benefits to denounce the absolute power of the Consul At similar to two kings according to him, and presents a project from it to set up a commission having on goal to put in writing the rights of the Consul S: the Lex Terentilia .

The Patrician S, in their fight, are carried out by an young man extremely shining in any intrepid point but according to Tite-Live, Céson Quinctius, wire of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (future Consul and dictator), to which one of the powerful orators is opposed, Aulus Verginius. This last declares that if the people want that the law is voted, Céson Quinctius should not be one obstacle any more, and it puts it in charge. Number of old Consul S, whose in particular Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, member of very the family, speak in praise of the young man, points out these many exploits in spite of its young age, but the people, encouraged by Aulus Verginius, associate the idea of freedom with that to condemn the young person Patricien. At the time of the lawsuit, a Powerful orator of the plebs, Marcus Volscius Fictor, carries a decisive charge, on facts going back to several years, and the defendant is condemned, in spite of the effort of the Patricien S. It will exile himself at the Étrusques before the end of the lawsuit, avoiding the sorrow, but obliging his father to live recluse to pay the fine.

Quaestorship (458)

The previous year, the Questeur S showed Marcus Volscius Fictor of false witness, starting again the fight, and the Tribuns of the plebs were opposed to the meeting Comices tributes as long as they same could not join together them to make vote their project of Lex Terentilia .

Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus is elected Questeur at the side of Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca. They take again the charge and reinforce it, to avenge Céson Quinctius for its unjust fate, while the Tribuns of the plebs always prevent that the lawsuit takes place.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is named dictator a little later overcomes all the enemies of Rome, returns in Triomphe, condemns Marcus Volscius Fictor, and abdicates in 16 days.

Tite-Live mentions only once Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus until its fourth Consul At, to announce that, like the other illustrates member of the people Quinctia , Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, they are isolated at the time of the choice of the members of the Décemvir At.

Fourth Consul At (446)

He is elected at the sides of Agrippa Furius Fusus for the fourth time. Only Publius Valerius Publicola was elected four times Consul before him.

After the fall of the despotic Décemvir S, internal seditions burst again, and this year is not saved. The Èques and the Volsques, always attentive to attack the Roman during one turbid period, set out again in war and devastate the Latium with impunity, no mobilization not being able to take place. This speech has great effect on the people, more especially as the rural ones return to Rome wounded and stripped grounds, throwing indignation.

Both Consul S have been able to join together an army, the people being massively mobilized, and that, for the first time for a few years.

Creation of the consular powerful orators and interregnum (444)

By the Lex Canuliea , the prohibition of Plebeian marriage between and Patricien is removed. The Powerful orator of the plebs Caius Canuleius, extremely from this victory, benefits for reproposer a law granting to the Plébéien S the access to the Consul At, and prevents any mobilization of the armies from it as long as the law is not voted. Either the Patricien S yield this law to the Plébéien S, and they can raise an army to face the enemies of Rome, or they let them devastate the territory of the République.

With the Senate, the debates make rages, and some propose to arm the Consul S against the Tribuns with the plebs. The two famous members of the people Quinctia , Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus oppose so that blood is poured, and an intermediate proposal is found: the creation of the military Tribuns to consular capacity, Patricien or Plébéien, replacing the Consul S, always selected among the Patricien S, certain years according to the circumstances, which satisfies the Tribuns of the plebs.

Fifth Consul At (443)

He is elected for the fifth time Consul with for colleague Marcus Geganius Macerinus. It is the first to have reached so much the Magistrat supreme RUE of time, and only seven other Roman politicians will be five times Consul in their life.

Whereas his/her colleague carries help to an ally, Ardée, in prey with a civil war and besieged by the Volsques, Titus Quinctius maintains the harmony in Rome. The Sénat and the Roman people have such a respect for the Consul surface that it is one of the first years without interior disorders.

Sixth Consul At (439)

It reaches the Consul At a sixth and last time with Agrippa Menenius Lanatus. A terrible food shortage prevailed in Rome, and a rich person Plébéien, Spurius Maelius, bought, with his fortune, of corn to nourish the population. Its popularity becomes such as it would have aspired to the royalty.

The Consul S, in front of this threat, name a dictator, which does not have to answer of these acts and can thus face as it wishes it with the situation, contrary to both Consul S, held by the laws. It is Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, more than octogenarian, who is named, with the blessing of the dictator.

Thus finishes the sixth Consul At of Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus. Only Caius Marius will equalize this record, and will even exceed it, while carrying it to seven Consul ATS.

Lieutenant against Fidènes (437)

Fidènes, a Roman colony, gives up the Roman République with the profit of Véies. After a victory in a blood bath, a dictator is named, Marcus Aemilius Mamercinus. It chooses Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, his colleague of the last year and wire of old the dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, like Maître of cavalry, and Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus and Marcus Fabius Vibulanus as lieutenants. The Étrusques are joined by the Falisques.

The battle starts, close to Fidènes, Titus Quinctius orders part of the army and fact face with the Véiens. The Etruscan infantry quickly yields ground, while the cavalry resists the Roman projection, until the king of Véies is killed by the military Tribun Aulus Cornelius Cossus.

This battle is the last feat of arms of the six times Consul Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus.

End-of-life and descent

According to Tite-Live, in 423 av. J. - C., it would be still in life with nearly 90 years. Marcus Postumius Albinus Regillensis and Titus Quinctius Poenus Capitolinus is put in charge for a defeat against Véies. First is condemned and the second would have been discharged for the respect which one had for Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, his/her father deceased, and of Titus Quinctius Capitolinus, family member, who, already advanced in age, entreated with prayers that, for the little of days which remained to him to be lived, one did not give him such a sad news to be carried to Cincinnatus .

His/her son, who bears the same name, Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, is elected Consul in 421 av. J. - C. and probably military Tribun with consular capacity in 405 av. J. - C.

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