person
Aulus Gabinius
Gabinius
Tribune 67 BC (proposer of the lex Gabinia for Pompey's pirate command), consul 58 BC; one of the consuls under whom Cicero went into exile, hence one of the "two whirlwinds of the commonwealth" of Pro Sestio.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.24 §3 among Gabinius's gladiators
A. Gabinius, a partisan of Pompey and Caesar (consul-designate for 58 BC), kept a troop of gladiators. Vettius's claim that the plotters meant to strike amid them was self-defeating, since they were the triumvirs' own men.
- Ad Familiares 11.16 §2 he was banished from the city by the consul Gabinius
A. Gabinius, consul 58 BC and an ally of Clodius, ordered Lamia out of Rome for agitating on Cicero's behalf --- an extraordinary act, since (Cicero notes) no Roman citizen had been relegated from the city itself before this.
- Ad Familiares 12.29 §1 he was banished by the consul A. Gabinius
In 58 BC the consul A. Gabinius, ally of Clodius, ordered Lamia (a leading knight) out of Rome by edict (relegatio) for openly agitating on Cicero's behalf during Cicero's exile.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.6 §1 the Senate in full session was inspired in denying the thanksgiving to Gabinius
A. Gabinius, consul 58 BC and governor of Syria, requested a supplicatio (public thanksgiving) for his campaigns; the Senate's refusal was a stinging rebuff to one of Cicero's bitterest enemies, who as consul had abetted his exile.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.11 §2 Gabinius was savagely set upon
A. Gabinius, returning from his governorship of Syria, faced furious hostility for having restored Ptolemy to Egypt without senatorial sanction; he was prosecuted on several counts in 54 BC.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.3 §2 Gabinius has been put on trial for canvassing
A. Gabinius, consul 58 BC and proconsul of Syria, faced multiple prosecutions on his return in 54 BC; the ambitus (electoral bribery) charge here was one of several. The named subscriptores are his prosecutor P. Sulla's relatives acting as supporting counsel.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.9 §1 I was a stinging witness, and for the rest kept quiet
Cicero defends his conduct at Gabinius's trial: he gave damaging testimony but neither prosecuted nor defended. He casts the restraint as dignified, having been pressed to take a more active part.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.9 §3 Gabinius's acquittal is reckoned a law of impunity
Gabinius's escape from the maiestas charge was taken as a precedent that even flagrant offenders would go unpunished, which Cicero thinks will help shield Messalla in his own coming consular candidacy.
- For Gaius Rabirius Postumus §8 damages have been assessed against A. Gabinius
A. Gabinius, governor of Syria, restored Ptolemy by force of arms in 55 BC and was convicted of extortion (de repetundis) on his return. The litis aestimatio set the damages he owed; Postumus is now sued for sums alleged to have reached him.