Cossutianus Capito

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Cossutianus Capito was a Roman politician and prosecutor of the 1st century AD.

Life

Tacitus mentions Cossutianus Capito as a member of the Senate in 47 when he vehemently opposed the reintroduction of the lex Cincia .

Later he was governor of Cilicia , as he in the year 57 of Cilician envoys in Rome because of extortion was indicted. At the trial he clashed with Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus , who supported the prosecutor's cause. Cossutianus Capito was convicted and lost his senatorial rank, which he got back in 57 at the request of his father-in-law Tigellinus . In the year 62 he indicted the praetor Antistius Sosianus , who had written a diatribe about the emperor; Again Thrasea Paetus stood on the other side, who this time succeeded in getting the Senate to issue a mild verdict and thus preventing the accused from being executed.

Thrasea Paetus' success had aroused the emperor's displeasure, which amounted to a death sentence for them and from which he could not protect himself by retreating into private life: Cossutianus Capito and Eprius Marcellus took it upon themselves to pursue Thrasea. Various charges were brought against Thrasea Paetus in 66, and the Senate, intimidated by the presence of a large contingent of troops, saw no alternative but to sentence him to death: Thrasea Paetus then committed suicide .

literature

  • Steven H. Rutledge: Imperial Inquisitions. Prosecutors and informants from Tiberius to Domitian . Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-23700-9 , pp. 218-219 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 11,6,5.
  2. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 13,33,3; 16.21.3.
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 14: 48-49.
  4. ↑ On the trial of Thrasea and his death Tacitus, Annals 16.21–16.35.
personal data
SURNAME Cossutianus Capito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician
DATE OF BIRTH before 47
DATE OF DEATH after 62