Gaius Carrinas was a Roman politician, general and
consul.
In 45 BC, Carrinas was sent on the orders of
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...
to Spain to fight
Sextus
Sextus is an ancient Roman '' praenomen'' or "first name". Its standard abbreviation is Sex., and the feminine form would be Sexta. It is one of the numeral ''praenomina'', like Quintus ("fifth") and Decimus ("tenth"), and means "sixth". Althoug ...
and
Gnaeus Pompeius. As he was unsuccessful in putting down the two Pompeii and the last remnants of the Republicans, he was superseded by
Gaius Asinius Pollio. After the establishment of the
Second Triumvirate
The Second Triumvirate was an extraordinary commission and magistracy created for Mark Antony, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Octavian to give them practically absolute power. It was formally constituted by law on 27 November 43 BC with a ...
in 43 BC, Carrinas together with
Publius Ventidius Bassus was appointed consul suffectus for the remainder of the year. In 41 BC,
Octavian made Carrinas governor of Spain, where he warred with
Bocchus II. In 36 BC, Octavian sent him with three legions against Sextus Pompeius in
Sicily. In 31 BC Carrinas was made
proconsular
governor of
Gaul, where he successfully fought against the rebellious
Morini and drove the invading
Suebi
The Suebi (or Suebians, also spelled Suevi, Suavi) were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic. In the early Roman era they included many peoples with their own names ...
back across the Rhine, for which he was honoured with a triumph in 29 BC.
Carrinas was the son of the Marian commander
Gaius Carrinas. Havercamp supposed ''Carrinas'' to be a cognomen of the
Albia gens, but as the names never appear together in inscriptions, and Umbrian nomina frequently end in ,
[Chase, p. 118.] it seems that the Carrinates were a separate
gens
In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...
of
Oscan or Umbrian origin.
See also
*
Carrinatia gens
The gens Carrinatia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens rose to prominence during the final century of the Republic, attaining the consulship in 43 BC.
Origin
The nomen ''Carrinas'', occasionally written ''Carinas'', is o ...
References
Bibliography
* Appianus Alexandrinus (
Appian), ''Bellum Civile'' (The Civil War), iv. 83, v. 26, 112.
* Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (
Cassius Dio), ''Roman History'', xlvii. 15, li. 21, 22.
*
Sigebert Havercamp, ''Thesaurus Morelliantes'' (1734).
* ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'',
William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849), vol. I, pp. 615, 616 ("Carrinas or Carinas", No. 2).
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1st-century BC Roman consuls
Ancient Roman generals