Lucius Papirius Cursor (censor in 272 BC)
Lucius Papirius Cursor or Lucius Papirius Praetextatus (c. 364 BC - 272 BC) was a Roman politician of the 3rd century BC, a grandson of Lucius Papirius Cursor. His brother, also Lucius Papirius Cursor, was twice consul.
He and Manius Curius Dentatus became censors in 272 BC - they ordered the construction of the Aqua Anio, Rome's second aqueduct, funded by the loot from the Battle of Beneventum.[1] It is Frontinus' book on aqueducts which gives him the cognomen Cursor, but he is more often known by that of Praetextatus in the lists of censors. He also appears in a 1775 painting by Angelica Kaufmann.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Frontinus, The Aqueducts of the City of Rome, Book I, 6
- ^ "Catalogue entry".