Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (Consul 253 BC)
Gnaeus Servilius Caepio came from the Roman patrician family of the Servilians and was 253 BC. Chr. Consul .
Life
Gnaeus Servilius Caepio had a father and grandfather of the same name. We only know details of the military operations in his consulate that he carried out together with his counterpart Gaius Sempronius Blaesus against the Carthaginians in the First Punic War . After an unsuccessful landing maneuver at Lilybaion on the west bank of Sicily , the consuls made a raid on the North African coast with their 260 ships, but when they were stuck on a shoal, had to throw a lot of booty overboard in order to free the ships by reducing their weight, and quickly returned to Sicily. On the onward voyage to Rome 150 ships of the consular fleet were sunk by a strong storm.
A son or grandson of Caepio treated here was the consul of the same name from 203 BC. Chr.
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Sempronius 28). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, column 1368 f.
- Friedrich Münzer: Servilius 43). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, column 1780.
Remarks
- ↑ Polybios 1, 39, 1-7; Zonaras 8, 14; Diodor 23:19 ; Eutropius 2:23 ; Orosius 4, 9, 10-11.
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| SURNAME | Servilius Caepio, Gnaeus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caepio, Gnaeus Servilius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 253 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |