Gaius Fonteius Agrippa (suffect consul 58)
Gaius Fonteius Agrippa (* probably before 15; † 70) was a Roman politician and suffect consul in 58.
Gaius Fonteius Agrippa was the son of Praetor Fonteius Agrippa, who had accused Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus in 16 AD . Since his parents were divorced, his sister (Fonteia?) Could not be accepted as a vestal virgin in 19.
In May and June of 58 Gaius Fonteius Agrippa officiated as Nero's successor together with the other ordinary consul, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, as suffect consul . From 66 to 68, Fonteius was responsible for the water supply to Rome as curator aquarum . In 68 he took over the administration of the province of Asia for one year as proconsul . In 69 Vespasian made him imperial legate with praetorical authority ( legatus Augusti pro praetore ) and sent him to Moesia to meet the Scythian Sarmatianswho had crossed the Danube to pacify. Gaius Fonteius Agrippa was killed there in the year 70, despite the most violent resistance, whereupon Vespasian sent Rubrius Gallus to punish and subjugate the Sarmatians.
literature
- Rudolf Hanslik : Fonteius II. 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, Sp. 592.
- Paul A. Gallivan: Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero . In: Classical Quarterly . New Series, 24.2, 1974, pp. 290-311.
Remarks
- ^ Tacitus , Annalen 2, 86.
- ↑ CIL 4, 3340 , No. 146 and p. 417, where "idus Iulias" should be "idus Iunias" (Gallivan, Some Comments , p. 291).
- ^ Frontin , De aquis urbis Romae 102.
- ↑ CIL 3, 6083 ; Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes 4, 439.
- ↑ Flavius Josephus , Jüdischer Krieg 7, 91 (= 7, 4, 3); Jordanes , Getica 13, 76.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fonteius Agrippa, Gaius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Agrippa, Gaius Fonteius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman suffect consul 58 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 15 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 70 |
| Place of death | Moesia |