Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (Consul 169 BC)

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Gnaeus Servilius Caepio came from the Roman patrician family of the Servilians and was 169 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Gnaeus Servilius Caepio was the son of the consul of the same name from 203 BC. Together with Appius Claudius Centho he was 179 BC. Chr. Curule aedile . Five years later, 174 BC. Chr., He is attested as praetor of the Roman province Hispania ulterior , which he only 173 BC. BC left again. When a military confrontation between Rome and Macedonia began to emerge the following year , Caepio, as envoy, is said to be the last, along with Centho, with whom he had attained adility, and Titus Annius Luscus (probably father of the consul of the same name from 153 BC) have submitted a catalog of demands from Rome to the Macedonian king Perseus , but only met with rejection. However , the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer considers this fact communicated by the Roman historian Titus Livius to be an annalistic forgery.

After no patricians had received the highest state office for three years, Caepio was appointed in 169 BC. Together with Quintus Marcius Philippus Consul. The latter was entrusted with the fight against Perseus, while Caepio had to be content with the province of Italy and, after his term in office, led the elections of the subsequent consuls. His further fate is unknown.

Caepio had a son of the same name who lived in 141 BC. Was consul, also a son Quintus Servilius Caepio , who 140 BC. He held the highest office of the state, and a third son, Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus , who got his name from his adoption into the patrician family of the Fabians .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini : Gnaeus Servilius Caepio Cn. f. Cn. n .; Livy 41, 21, 8.
  2. ^ Livy 40, 59, 6.
  3. ↑ Livy 41, 21, 3 and 8; 42, 4, 2-3.
  4. ↑ Livy 42:25, 1-13; on this F. Münzer, RE II A, 1, Sp. 1780f.
  5. ↑ Fasti Capitolini; Livy 43:11, 6; 43, 15, 3-5; 44, 17, 2f .; 44, 18, 5.
personal data
SURNAME Servilius Caepio, Gnaeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.