Numerius Cestius
Numerius Cestius was a Roman politician of the early Imperial period .
Numerius Cestius' past is in the dark, as neither his father's name nor his cognomen have been passed down. Presumably, however, he belonged to the plebeian gens Cestia , which had produced two consuls under the emperors Tiberius and Claudius in the early imperial period : Gaius Cestius Gallus , full consul in AD 35, and his son Gaius Cestius Gallus , consul suffect in AD 42 .
Cestius made a career under Emperor Nero . He succeeded him, who had held the consulate for the first time as an ordinary consul in AD 55, and became a suffect consul on March 1st.
literature
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR )² C 689.
- Meret Strothmann : Cestius [II 1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 1078.
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Cestius, Numerius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician of the early imperial era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 55 |