Cestius

Cestius was the nomen gentile of a Roman plebeian family , the gens Cestia.

Members of this family in Rome and Praeneste inscription is evidence were in the late Republic and early Empire politically active. Two important Roman architectural monuments, the Ponte Cestio and the Cestius pyramid , were built by Cestians.

Well-known namesake

• Gaius Cestius , praetor 44 BC Chr.
• Lucius Cestius , praetor and mint master 43 BC Chr.
• Gaius Cestius Epulo , praetor and builder of the Cestius pyramid
• Cestius Macedonicus , princeps of Perusia 40 BC. Chr.
• Lucius Cestius Pius , Asian rhetorician at the time of Augustus
• Gaius Cestius Gallus , Ordinary Consul 35 AD
• Gaius Cestius Gallus († 67), suffect consul 42 AD and governor of Syria
• Numerius Cestius , suffect consul in AD 55

literature

• Karl-Ludwig Elvers , Meret Strothmann : Cestius. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 1077 f.