Quintus Servilius Caepio (Treasurer)
Quintus Servilius Caepio (* around 97 BC ; † 67 BC in Ainos ) was a Roman politician of the late Republic and the adoptive father of Marcus Iunius Brutus , the later murderer of Caesar.
He was a son of Quintus Servilius Caepio , who in the Social War, v 90th BC fell, and Livia . He had a sister, Servilia Caepionis , the mother of Brutus, and the half-siblings Cato the younger and Porcia.
Caepio took 72 BC Under the consul Lucius Gellius Publicola in the Spartacus war as a military tribune . It is probable, if not completely certain, that he was quaestor under Pompey when he was 67 BC. Died on the way to Asia Minor in Ainos in Thrace. Cato, who had rushed to his half-brother but could no longer find him alive, had a monument erected for Caepio on the Agora of Ainos.
He had adopted his nephew Marcus Iunius Brutus, who then took the name of his adoptive father and eventually inherited his fortune.
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- ↑ First name and noun gentile are not recorded in the sources, but can be deduced.
- ↑ Plutarch , Cato minor 1 .
- ^ Plutarch, Cato minor 8, 1 .
- ^ Plutarch, Cato minor 11 .
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| SURNAME | Servilius Caepio, Quintus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caepio, Quintus Servilius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician, adoptive father of Marcus Junius Brutus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: around 97 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 67 BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Ainos |