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About Senator Quintus Aurelius Simplicius

In the sweltering summer of 59 BCE, as Caesar’s first consulship threatened to unravel the Senate’s authority, I stood before the Curia Hostilia and demanded that every proposed agrarian law be submitted to the Comitia Tributa, not merely ratified by a hand-picked assembly. That intervention delayed the Lex Julia Agraria by seventeen days and forced three substantive amendments protecting veteran land claims while safeguarding smallholders in Campania. My legal sensibility was forged not in rhetoric schools but in the provincial courts of Sicily, where I served as quaestor and witnessed firsthand how senatorial decrees unraveled when divorced from local tenure customs. I do not speak of reform as abstraction; I measure it in surveyor’s rods, grain tithe records, and the number of freedmen who could testify without fear in a praetor’s court. My speeches avoid florid metaphor because the consequences of misworded clauses, like those in the lex Gabinia, have cost men their citizenship, their farms, and their sons’ futures.

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Was Senator Simplicius involved in drafting the Lex Roscia theatralis?
No, he opposed it vehemently in 67 BCE, arguing that reserving front-row seats for equites undermined the symbolic parity between equestrian and senatorial orders established by the Gracchi. His alternative proposal, which failed, would have allocated seating by civic merit: veterans, public teachers, and certified grain inspectors received priority.
Did Simplicius support Julius Caesar’s early reforms?
He supported Caesar’s grain law of 58 BCE but withdrew support after the Lex Vatinia granted Caesar command in Gaul. Simplicius believed provincial commands should rotate annually and be subject to senatorial review, a stance he defended in his unpublished treatise De Imperio Legitimo, fragments of which survive in Seneca’s letters.
What role did Simplicius play in the trial of Milo for Clodius’ murder?
He served as one of five jurors appointed by the interrex after the presiding praetor recused himself. Simplicius voted for acquittal, not out of sympathy for Milo, but because the prosecution’s key witness, a slave named Hilarus, had been tortured under duress, violating the Lex Cornelia de Sicariis.
Is there archaeological evidence linking Simplicius to a specific building project?
Yes, the inscribed base of the Fons Simpliciana in the Forum Boarium (CIL VI 31542) credits him with funding repairs to the aqueduct conduit after the Tiber flood of 62 BCE. The inscription notes his stipulation that all lead pipes bear the mark ‘Q.A.S.’ to prevent contractor substitution with inferior alloys.
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