Lucius Opimius was a Roman politician who held the consulship in 121 BC, in which capacity and year he ordered the execution of 3,000 supporters of popular...

praetor Lucius Opimius with an army to suppress the rebellion. A local traitor named Numitorius opened the gates to the Roman army; Opimius razed the...

It was built in 121 BC near the Temple of Concord and named after Lucius Opimius, who had financed its construction and that of the temple. When the...

conspirators with less evidence, in one instance—the case of former consul Lucius Opimius' slaughter of Gaius Gracchus (one of the Gracchi brothers)—based only...

accepted bribes to favor Jugurtha. Among the officials found guilty was Lucius Opimius (who, as consul in 121 BC, had presided over events which led to the...

that Cornelia may have helped Gaius undermine the power of the consul Lucius Opimius by hiring foreign harvesters to help provide resistance (which suggests...

from a Spanish town. Then in 121 BC, he was elected consul alongside Lucius Opimius. During his consulship, he campaigned in Gallia Transalpina (in the...

Aurelius Opilius - freedman writer Lucius Opimius - consul Gaius Oppius - two Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius - poet Lucius Orbilius Pupillus - teacher, grammarian...

crimes. The Roman Senate organized a commission, led by the ex-Consul Lucius Opimius, to fairly divide Numidia between the remaining two contestants, starting...

similarly expansive reforms, would be killed by similar violence. Consul Lucius Opimius was empowered by the senate to use military force (including a number...

establishment of this decree as an institution was the acquittal of [Opimius]... However, Opimius' acquittal was controversial, and the interpretation of the decree...

Quintus Opimius was a Roman politician in the second century BC. He was a member of gens Opimia. His son Lucius Opimius was consul in 121 BC. In 154 BC...

down and executed (beheaded) without trial on the orders of the consul Lucius Opimius; the youngest son, too young to have participated in any plotting or...

Octavius Odaenathus Lucius Opimius Publius Ostorius Scapula – responsible for the defeat and capture of Caratacus Gnaeus Papirius Carbo Lucius Papirius Cursor...

Gracchus in 169 BC Basilica Opimia, erected probably by the consul Lucius Opimius in 121 BC, at the same time that he restored the temple of Concord (Platner...

anti-populist optimates, and as consul in 120 BC successfully defended Lucius Opimius, when he was impeached for the murder of a citizen (Gaius Gracchus)...

favor the usurper: they merely send a commission to Numidia, headed by Lucius Opimius, which assigns the area bordering the Roman province of Africa to Adherbal...

filiation. Lucius Opimius Pansa, quaestor in 294 BC, during the Third Samnite War, was slain in a Samnite attack upon the Roman camp. Quintus Opimius, grandfather...

Cretan archers, Opimius stormed the Aventine, killing Flaccus and his sons; Gaius was either killed or forced to commit suicide. Opimius then presided over...

vintage of 121 BC became known as the Opimian vintage, named for consul Lucius Opimius. Remarkable for its abundant harvest and the unusually high quality...

Roman Republic Fregellaeans Fregellae was captured and destroyed by Lucius Opimius 104–100 BC Second Servile War Sicily, Roman Republic Sicilian slaves...

and of Lucius Licinius Sura, friend of Trajan who built the private Baths of Licinius Sura. The emperor Vitellius and the Praefectus urbi Lucius Fabius...

estates passing thence to their heirs. Opimius was not entirely unreflective of his actions. Following the strife, [Opimius] performed a ritual purification...

The first Senatus consultum ultimum was passed, granting the consul Lucius Opimius emergency powers to defeat the partisans of Gaius Gracchus. 112 BC Jugurthine...

Senate passes the motion senatus consultum ultimum, which the consul Lucius Opimius interprets as giving him unlimited power to preserve the Republic. He...

Ahenobarbus (consul in 96 BC) and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul in 94 BC). He was the grandfather of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul in 54...

violent, he and Gaius were summoned to the senate but refused to attend. Lucius Opimius was then empowered by the senate, in the first senatus consultum ultimum...

immediately followed by the reconstruction of the Temple of Concord by Lucius Opimius at the senate's behest, which was regarded as an utterly insincere attempt...

re-election, one of his supporters killed an attendant of the consul Lucius Opimius. A confrontation ensued between the Gaius and the Senate, which quickly...

named Numitorius opened the gates to the Roman army under the praetor Lucius Opimius. The severity of its razing was later credited by the Romans with having...