Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (born ) was a Roman politician who was consul in 141 BC; his colleague was

Quintus Pompeius Quintus Pompeius was the name of various Romans from the gens Pompeia, who were of plebeian status. They lived during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Consul of 141 BC Quintus Pompeius A. f. (flourished 2nd century BC) was the son of an Aulu ...

. He was the elder brother of one of his immediate successors in the consulship, Quintus Servilius Caepio, and the homonymous son of the consul of 169 BC. During his consulship, he was "placed in charge of the investigation of uciusHostilius Tubulus ne of the praetors for 142 BCby the senate", who had become "a byword for accepting bribes while presiding over the ''quaestio de sicariis''". Tubulus was put on trial by Publius Mucius Scaevola who served as

tribune of the plebs Tribune of the plebs, tribune of the people or plebeian tribune ( la, tribunus plebis) was the first office of the Roman Republic, Roman state that was open to the plebs, plebeians, and was, throughout the history of the Republic, the most importan ...

that year, resulting in Tubulus' departure into exile. It is unclear what province Gnaeus Caepio received after his consulship; it is possible he was defeated in Macedonia, but more likely stayed in Italy. Some time around 138 BC, he joined his brother and some of the Caecilii Metelli in prosecuting his former consular colleague Pompeius for extortion. He, and his brother, were active lawyers in this period, as noted by Cicero. Münzer writes in the '' Realencyclopädie'' (1942) that Caepio, with a Quintus Metellus, suppressed a slave revolt at

Minturnae Minturno is a city and ''comune'' in the southern Lazio, Italy, situated on the north west bank of the Garigliano (known in antiquity as the Liris), with a suburb on the opposite bank about from its mouth, at the point where the Via Appia cross ...

and

Sinuessa Sinuessa ( el, or ) was a city of Latium, in the more extended sense of the name, situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 10 km north of the mouth of the Volturno River (the ancient ''Vulturnus''). It was on the line of the Via Appia, and was t ...

as part of an extraordinary command late in 133 BC;. Citing Oros. 5.9.4. Broughton, however, in ''Magistrates of the Roman Republic'' (1952) notes no such command. He was elected to the censorship of 125 BC with

Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla was a Roman politician. He served as consul in 127 BC and censor at the following lustrum in 125 BC. His first recorded office was that of tribune of the plebs in 137 BC. As a tribune of the plebs, he ...

. During their term, they constructed the

Aqua Tepula The Aqua Tepula is an ancient Roman aqueduct completed in 125 BC by censors Gnaeus Servilius Caepio, who had served as consul in 141 BC, and Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla. The water from the Aqua Tepula was, as implied in the nam ...

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* {{S-end Servilii Caepiones 2nd-century BC Roman consuls 180s BC births