Marcus Perperna (c. 147 BC – 49 BC) was the son of a previous
consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throu ...
,
Marcus Perperna.
Marcus Perperna became consul in 92 BC with Gaius Claudius Pulcher, and
censor in 86 BC with
Lucius Marcius Philippus. The censorship of Perperna is mentioned by
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...
, and
Cornelius Nepos
Cornelius Nepos (; c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona.
Biography
Nepos's Cisalpine birth is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him ''Pad ...
speaks of him as ''censorius''.
Although he lived through troubled times, he did not play a prominent role in them. It was probably the same Marcus Perperna who was judex in the case of
Gaius Aculeo, and also in that of
Quintus Roscius, for whom Cicero pleaded. In 54 BC, Marcus Perperna is mentioned as one of the consulars who bore testimony on behalf of
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus at his trial. He lived past all these times reaching the age of ninety-eight when he finally died in 49 BC. He outlived all the
senators who belonged to that body in his consulship, and at the time of his death there were only seven persons surviving whom he had enrolled in the senate during his censorship.
References
147 BC
140s BC births
Year of birth uncertain
49 BC deaths
Roman censors
2nd-century BC Romans
1st-century BC Roman consuls
Perpernae
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