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Id	2452
Person id-code	Fictorius Flaccus 001
Name	Fictorius Flaccus, C.
Gender	male
Gentilicia	FICTORIA
Cognomina	Flaccus
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Name comments	CIL 06, 30982: Utilis C(ai) Fictori Flacci AE 1941, 00071: [---]s Flaccus
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Post quem (when person flourished)	58 AD
Ante quem (when person flourished)	134 AD
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Legal status	liber incertus
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Citizen status	civis Romanus
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Status notes and comments	He was magister quinquennalis during the second lustrum of the collegium fabrum tignuariorum of Rome (AE 1941, 00071). His slave, Utilis, was minister (CIL 06, 30982). His name Fictorius is remarkable in view of the alleged existence of a collegium fictorum mentioned by Asconius alongside the as one of the guilds allowed to exist because of their public utilitly: Asconius, Cic. Corn. p. 67 (ed. Clark): Frequenter tum etiam coetus factiosorum hominum sine publica auctoritate malo publico fiebant: propter quod postea collegia et S. C. et pluribus legibus sunt sublata praeter pauca atque certa quae utilitas civitatis desiderasset, sicut fabrorum fictorumque. Pliny the Elder mentions the same guild under the name of the figuli as one of the ancient collegia established by king Numa Pompilius (Plinius, N.H. 35,159 (lx)) propter quae (i.e.) the great usefulness of clay) Numa rex septimum collegium figulorum instituit