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Gaius Fonteius Capito (other)
Gaius Fonteius Capito may refer to: * Gaius Fonteius Capito (suffect consul 33 BC), suffect consul of 33 BC, father of the consul of AD 12, and grandfather of the consul of AD 59. * Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul AD 12) Gaius Fonteius Capito (fl. AD 12) was a Roman Empire, Roman Roman senate, senator during the Principate. He served as Roman consul, ordinary consul as the colleague of Germanicus in AD 12, and later as proconsul of Asia (Roman province), Asia.Ronal ..., consul of AD 12, son of the suffect consul of 33 BC, and father of the consul of AD 59. * Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul 59), consul of AD 59 and son of the consul of AD 12. {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Fonteius Capito (suffect Consul 33 BC)
Gaius Fonteius Capito (fl. 1st century BC) was a Roman senator who was appointed suffect consul in 33 BC. Biography Fonteius Capito, a ''novus homo'', was the son of Gaius Fonteius Capito and a supporter of the ''Triumvir'' Marcus Antonius. Of Plebeian origins, perhaps he was a Plebeian Tribune in about 39 BC, and he may have belonged to one of the priesthoods of Ancient Rome by this time. In 39/38 BC, Antonius appointed him to the office of ''monetalis'' in one of the eastern provinces of the empire, during which time he minted coins with Antony's and his wife Octavia's portrait. In the year 37 BC, at a time of increased tension between Marcus Antonius and his colleague Octavianus, Fonteius Capito served as Antony's representative in Italy. After having negotiated with Octavianus, he travelled with Gaius Maecenas, Lucius Cocceius Nerva, and a number of poets including Horace and Virgil, down to Brundisium in order to discuss the situation with Marcus Antonius and to prepare the gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul AD 12)
Gaius Fonteius Capito (fl. AD 12) was a Roman Empire, Roman Roman senate, senator during the Principate. He served as Roman consul, ordinary consul as the colleague of Germanicus in AD 12, and later as proconsul of Asia (Roman province), Asia.Ronald Syme"Problems about Proconsuls of Asia" ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'', 53 (1983), p. 191 Family Capito was born a member of the plebeian ''Fonteia gens, gens Fonteia''. He was the son of Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul 33 BC), Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul ''suffectus'' of 33 BC), who was a ''novus homo'' ("new man") and the first of the ''Fonteii'' to obtain the consulship. This Capito's son was also named Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul 59), Gaius Fonteius Capito, and became consul as well in AD 59. Career The date the sortition awarded Capito proconsul of Asia was about ten years after his consulship, that is AD 23/24, although Ronald Syme admits it might have occurred the previous year. During the consulship of Cossus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |