Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (consul 203 BC)
Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (died 174 BC) was a Roman statesman who served as Roman consul in 203 BC.[1]
He was elected Pontiff in 213 BC, replacing C. Pupilius Maso;[2] he became Aedile in 207, celebrating the Ludi Romani three times.[3] In 205 he became Praetor.[4] As consul, he was the last Roman general to fight against Hannibal in Bruttium, (South Italy); after the latter left Italy, Caepio crossed over into Sicily planning to go from there into Africa. The Roman Senate, fearing that Caepio would ignore their commands, created a dictator, Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus, to recall him.[5] Later on, in 194 BC, he was sent as a legate to Carthage, causing Hannibal's exile to Antiochus III the Great's court.[6] Then in 192 BC, he was sent as a legate into Greece to rile up the Roman allies in a potential conflict with Antiochus the Great.[7]
Cnaeus Servilius died in 174 BC, during a great epidemic.[8]
References[]
- ^ J.C. Yardley (2009). Hannibal's War:, Books 21-30 (Google eBook). Oxford University Press.
- ^ Livy, XXV, 2
- ^ Livy, XXVIII, 10
- ^ Livy, XXVIII, 38 and 46
- ^ Livy, XXX, 24
- ^ Livy, XXXIII, 47 & 49
- ^ Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. Vol. 1. Boston, Little. p. 533.
- ^ Livy, XLI, 21
- 174 BC deaths
- 3rd-century BC Roman consuls
- Servilii Caepiones