Lucius Marcius Philippus (other)
Lucius Marcius Philippus may refer to: * Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 91 BC), a distinguished Roman orator in his time and the father of the consul in 56 BC; * Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 56 BC), the step-father of the Roman emperor Augustus and the father-in-law of Cato the Younger; * Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 38 BC) Lucius Marcius Philippus was a Roman politician who was elected suffect consul in 38 BC. He was step-brother to the future emperor Augustus. Biography A member of the plebeian branch of the Marcia family, Philippus was the son of Lucius Marci ...

Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 91 BC)
Lucius Marcius Philippus (c. 141 – c. 73 BC) was a Roman orator and an important politician of the late Roman Republic. His strenuous opposition to the reforms of Marcus Livius Drusus during his consulship of 91 BC was instrumental in the outbreak of the disastrous ''Bellum Italicum'', the Social War. He did well under the Marian government during the mid-80s BC, holding the high office of censor in 86 BC. However, he took advantage of the political amnesty offered by Sulla during the civil war of 83 BC and changed sides, along with other Marians of later importance, such as Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (cos. 78) and Marcus Junius Brutus (tr. pl. 83), Publius Cethegus, and Pompey. Philippus had backed the winner in the Civil War, and enjoyed a special eminence in the first decade after as one of the few surviving men of consular rank and as Rome's pre-eminent orator since the death of Marcus Antonius (late 87 BC). Following Sulla's death (78 BC), he played a key role in ...
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Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 56 BC)
Lucius Marcius Philippus (born before 102 BC) was a politician and senator in the late Roman republic. He was governor of Syria from 61 to 60 and later served in the consulship of 56 BC. He was also step-father of the emperor Augustus. Biography and was the son of the consul in 91 BC and censor in 86 BC of the same name. He also had a brother, Quintus, who served as proconsul in Cilicia from 47 to 46 BC. His first known office was that of praetor in the year 62 BC. After the organisation of Roman Syria, carved out as a province from the Selucid Empire by Pompey in 64 BC, it was governed by two propraetorian governors. Philippus was one of them. He succeeded Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, who had governed the province as Pompey's ''proquaestor pro praetore''; Phillipus served there two years, from 61 through 60 BC. Consulship In 56 BC, he entered office as consul with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus as his colleague. Before th ...
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