Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi[1] (fl. 1st century BC) was the adoptive son of consul Marcus Licinius Crassus and the adoptive great-grandson of triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus. Frugi's adoptive father was the last known direct descendant of the triumvir who bore his name.

Life

Frugi served as a consul under the Roman emperor Augustus in 14 BC, during the Roman Empire. An inscription from the Balearic islands indicates he was governor of Hispania Tarraconensis around 10 BC.[2] Another document shows he was proconsular governor of Africa for the term 9/8 BC.[3][4]

Frugi's father is unknown; however, he may have been Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi (who may have been praetor in 44 BC and could have been a legatus in 40 BC), and his paternal grandfather was Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus, consul in 61 BC.

Frugi, by an unnamed wife, had a son called Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, who served as consul in 27 who married Scribonia, a descendant of the triumvir Pompey, and a daughter called Licinia who married the consul of 27, Lucius Calpurnius Piso.

Sources

  1. ↑ Syme, "Piso Frugi and Crassus Frugi", Journal of Roman Studies, 50 (1960), pp. 12–20, JSTOR 298283
  2. ↑ AE 1959, 317
  3. ↑ AE 1951, 205
  4. ↑ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 276
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