Lucius Papirius Mugilanus was a Roman politician and the

suffect consul A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...

in 444 BC along with

Lucius Sempronius Atratinus Lucius Sempronius Atratinus (died 7 AD) was a Roman politician who was elected suffect consul in 34 BC. He is mentioned in ''Pro Caelio'', a famous speech in defense of Marcus Caelius Rufus by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Biography Probably born a ...

. The consulship was mostly peaceful, including renewing a treaty with Ardea.

Consul

Lucius Papirius Mugilanus and Lucius Sempronius Atratinus were both elected consul in 444 BC after the three

consular tribunes A consular tribune was putatively a type of magistrate in the early Roman Republic. According to Roman tradition, colleges of consular tribunes held office throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BC during the so-called "Conflict of the Or ...

, Aulus Sempronius Atratinus,

Lucius Atilius Luscus The gens Atilia, sometimes written Atillia, was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, which rose to prominence at the beginning of the fourth century BC. The first member of this gens to attain the consulship was Marcus Atilius Regulus, in 335 BC. ...

and

Titus Cloelius Siculus Titus Cloelius Siculus was a Roman statesman of the early Republic, and one of the first consular tribunes in 444 BC. He was compelled to abdicate after a fault was found during his election. Two years later he was one of the founders of the colon ...

were forced to abdicate. During their tenure, the consuls extended their treaty with Ardea. According to Livy this is the only reason why we know that they were consuls for that year, because they have not been found in other ancient text.

Censor

The year after their consulship both he, and his consular colleague, Sempronius, were elected as the first censors. The magistracy was created as no census had been held for seventeen years and to free the consuls (who previously had held the census) for military duties. The authenticity of this office is doubted by some modern scholars.Broughton, vol i, pp.53-54, (see note 1)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Papirius Mugillanus, Lucius 5th-century BC Roman consuls Mugillanus, Lucius