Gnaeus Octavius ​​(Consul 165 BC)

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Gnaeus Octavius († 162 BC in Laodikeia in Syria) was a Roman politician of the 2nd century BC. Chr.

The son of the praetor of the same name from 205 BC. Was 172 BC. Curular aedile and 169 envoy to Greece. He was also accepted into the priestly quorum of the Decemviri Sacris Faciundis . As praetor he commanded in 168 BC Naval units in the Third Macedonian War and captured the Macedonian king Perseus on the island of Samothrace . In 167 he initially remained in the east as a propaetor and then returned to Rome to celebrate a triumphal procession ( triumphus navalis ) on December 1 of that year . As a monument to his victory, he built a richly decorated columned hall at the Circus Flaminius ( Porticus Octavia , also called porticus Corinthia after the Corinthian columns used there, perhaps for the first time in Rome ). 165 BC He became the first of his family, that is, as Homo novus , consul . On a mission to the east of the Mediterranean he was 162 BC. Killed in Laodikeia in Syria.

Many of his descendants also acquired the consulate, starting with his son of the same name .

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SURNAME Octavius, Gnaeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, consul 165 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 172 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 162 BC Chr.
Place of death Latakia