Quintus Aelius Tubero ( mid-1st century BC) was a Roman jurist and historian.

Biography

Early life

Quintus is presumed to have been the son of

Lucius Aelius Tubero Lucius Aelius Tubero was a 1st-century BC Ancient Rome, Roman politician and writer of the Aelia gens, gens Aelia; a friend of Cicero, he was the father of historian and jurist Quintus Aelius Tubero (historian), Quintus Aelius Tubero. He was married ...

and Tullia, a cousin of the orator Cicero.

Career

He fought for Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, but was subsequently pardoned by

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 ...

. In 46 BC, Tubero unsuccessfully attempted to prosecute one of Caesar's opponents, Quintus Ligarius, whose defence was undertaken by Cicero. This prompted him to abandon his public career, and he went on to study law under

Aulus Ofilius Aulus Ofilius (Ofilius in Greek: ο Όφίλλιος, flourished 1st century BC) was a Roman jurist of Equestrian rank, who lived in the Roman Republic. He is named as a jurist by Pomponius. Ofilius was a friend to Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cic ...

. Tubero authored several works on law, as well as an annalistic history of Rome in at least 14 books, covering the period from the city's foundation to his own day. He is known to have used the ''

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'' (linen books or rolls) as a source, and the historian Livy cites him as a reference.

Family

Tubero married a daughter of the jurist Servius Sulpicius Rufus, and was father to Quintus Aelius Tubero and Sextus Aelius Catus, consuls in 11 BC and AD 4 respectively. He also had a daughter whose son was the jurist Gaius Cassius Longinus, consul in AD 30.

References

Sources

* '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', " Tubero, Aelius" * * '' Oxford Classical Dictionary'',
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