•
Lucius Roscius, one of four Roman ambassadors sent to
Fidenae in 438 BC, who were put to death by
Lars Tolumnius, King of
Veii. Statues of the four were erected in the
Roman forum, where they were later incorporated into the
Rostra. • Sextus Roscius, a wealthy farmer and resident of Ameria, was murdered at Rome by assassins hired by his cousin, Titus Roscius Magnus. •
Sextus Roscius Sex. f., a resident of Ameria, whom
Cicero successfully defended on a charge of
patricide in 80 BC. • Titus Roscius Magnus, a relative and neighbor of the elder Sextus Roscius, who procured Sextus' murder in order to acquire his fortune, and had his son, the younger Sextus, proscribed. When the latter escaped death, Magnus and his co-conspirator, Titus Roscius Capito, accused Sextus of his father's murder. • Roscia, the sister of Quintus Roscius, the comic actor, married a certain Quinctius, whom Cicero defended in his oration,
Pro Quinctio. •
Lucius Roscius Otho,
tribune of the plebs in 67 BC, opposed the granting of
proconsular power to
Pompeius, who was sent to clear the Mediterranean of pirates. He also brought forward an unpopular law awarding fourteen rows of seats to the
equites at public arenas. • Roscius, the name of two brothers who joined
Crassus on his expedition against the
Parthians. • Lucius Roscius Fabatus, one of
Caesar's officers during the
Gallic War, held the lower Rhine with the
thirteenth legion at a time when other parts of
Gaul were in revolt.
praetor in 49, he served as an intermediary between Caesar and
Pompeius, delivering several messages back and forth. Roscius was mortally wounded at the
Battle of Forum Gallorum in 43 BC. • Roscius, the
legate of Quintus Cornificius in
Africa in 43 BC. Both were slain in battle against Titus Sextius, who had been ordered to take charge of the province by the
triumvirs. •
Marcus Roscius Coelius, legate of the
twentieth legion, was serving in
Britain in AD 68, when the emperor
Nero died.
Vespasian sent
Julius Agricola to replace him. Roscius was consul
suffectus in AD 81, serving from the Kalends of March to the Kalends of May. • Roscius Regulus, appointed consul
suffectus for one day in AD 69, holding the fasces on October 31 in the place of
Aulus Caecina Alienus.
Roscii Murenae • Quintus Roscius Murena, the adoptive father of Pompeius Falco. He may have been related to Marcus Roscius Coelius, the consul of AD 81, but precisely how is unclear. •
Quintus Roscius Sex. f. Coelius Murena Silius Decianus Vibullius Pius Julius Eurycles Herculanus Pompeius Falco, was governor of
Lycia and Pamphylia, then of
Judaea. He was consul in 108, from the Kalends of September to the end of the year, and subsequently governor of
Lower Moesia, then of
Asia. • Quintus Pompeius Sosius Priscus|Quintus Pompeius Q. f. Sex. n. [...] Bellicus Sollers Iulius Acer Ducenius Proculus Rutilianus Rufinus Silius Valens Valerius Niger Claudius Fuscus Saxa Amyntianus Sosius Priscus, consul in AD 149, and subsequently governor of Asia. •
Quintus Pompeius Q. f. Q. n. Senecio Roscius Murena Coelius Sextus Iulius Frontinus Silius Decianus Gaius Iulius Eurycles Herculaneus Lucius Vibullius Pius Augustanus Alpinus Bellicius Sollers Iulius Aper Ducenius Proculus Rutilianus Rufinus Silius Valens Valerius Niger Claudius Fuscus Saxa Amyntianus Sosius Priscus, quaestor, legate under his father in Asia, praetor, consul in AD 169, and subsequently governor of Asia. • Marcus Roscius Murena,
proconsul of
Bithynia and Pontus around 161/162. • Marcus Roscius M. f. Murena, son of the preceding, held the praetorship, but precisely when is unknown. • Lucius Roscius (L. f.) Aelianus Paculus, consul in AD 187, was one of the
Salii Palatini, and had been appointed
flamen in 170. • Lucius Roscius (L. f. L. n.) Aelianus Paculus Salvius Julianus, consul in AD 223. ==See also==