Gaius Fonteius Capito (suffect consul 33 BC)

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Gaius Fonteius Capito belonged to the plebeian family of Fonteier and was at the end of the Roman Republic in 33 BC. Chr. Suffect consul .

Gaius Fonteius Capito, who had a father of the same name, was a friend of the triumvir Marcus Antonius . Maybe he was around 39 BC. Chr. Tribune and held at that same time a priesthood, as an inscription from Kos indicates. 39/38 BC BC he probably administered one of the provinces of Antony in the east of the Roman Empire with a proprietary empire and at that time minted coins with his portrait and that of his wife Octavia . In 37 BC At a time when the tensions between Antonius and his triumvirate colleague Octavian increased again, Fonteius Capito was in Italy as Antonius' representative. He traveled on behalf of Octavian, together with his confidante Gaius Maecenas and Lucius Cocceius Nerva, who was friends with both triumvirs, from Tarracina to Brundisium to negotiate with Antonius and prepare the Treaty of Taranto . After the conclusion of the treaty, Antony sailed in the autumn of 37 BC. BC back to the east and sent Fonteius Capito to the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra in Egypt to escort her to Antioch in Syria. There was the headquarters of the triumvir, where he now spent the winter of 37/36 BC. BC with Cleopatra.

Fonteius Capito, who is possibly identical to the Roman antiquarian Fonteius mentioned by Johannes Lydos , was last named in 33 BC. Mentioned in which he held the suffect consulate in the months of May and June. He had a son of the same name who held the consulate in 12 AD.

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  1. ^ Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 46, 1088 . Cf. Karl-Ludwig Elvers : Fonteius [I 6]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 .
  2. ↑ Horace , Satires 1, 5, 32ff. with scholias.
  3. ↑ Plutarch , Antonius 36, 1f.
  4. ↑ Hans Georg Gundel : Fonteius I 9). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, Col. 591. Karl-Ludwig Elvers: Fonteius [I 6]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 . In contrast, however, Fritz Graf : Fonteius [I 9]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 ("Equation ... is ... untenable").
  5. ↑ CIL I² p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Fonteius Capito, Gaius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 33 BC Chr.