Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (Consul 141 BC)

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Gnaeus Servilius Caepio came from the Roman patrician family of the Servilians and was 141 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Gnaeus Servilius Caepio was a son of the consul of the same name from 169 BC. BC, since, according to the testimony of the Roman author Valerius Maximus, he was the elder brother of the consul from 140 BC. BC, Quintus Servilius Caepio , was.

Together with Quintus Pompeius , Caepio arrived in 141 BC. To the consulate. In this capacity, he was appointed by the Senate to lead the investigation against Lucius Hostilius Tubulus, who was accused of bribery . From an epitome of the historical work of the historian Titus Livius that was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century , a previously unknown historical detail can be derived from a Roman defeat against the Celtic tribe of the Scordiskans, who settled in the Balkans , but the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer considers it unlikely that the the unhappy general Caepio was.

Around 138 BC A lawsuit was brought against Quintus Pompey because he was alleged to have committed extortion. His former consular colleague Caepio testified against him in this process, as did his brother Quintus and the brothers Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus and Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus . Although all four witnesses were highly respected and influential, Pompey was acquitted. In the cities of Sinuessa and Minturnae in Lazio , 133 BC broke out. A slave revolt, which Caepio and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus put down.

Caepio attained the high office of censor in 125 BC. Chr .; his colleague was Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla . They had the aqueduct Aqua Tepula built to supply Rome with water . The year of Caepio's death is unknown.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Valerius Maximus 8: 5, 1.
  2. ^ Cicero , de finibus 2, 54.
  3. ^ Livius, Epitome from Oxyrhynchos , Book 54 for the year 141 BC. Chr .; on this F. Münzer, RE II A, 2, Sp. 1781.
  4. ↑ Cicero, per M. Fonteio 23; see. ders., Brutus 97; Valerius Maximus 8, 5, 1.
  5. ↑ Orosius 5, 9, 4.
  6. ^ Cicero, in Verrem actio 1, 143; Frontinus , de aquis urbis Romae 1, 8; Velleius 2, 10, 1.
personal data
SURNAME Servilius Caepio, Gnaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caepio, Gnaeus Servilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul and censor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.