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Quintus Servilius Caepio

Praetor in 91 BCE. As commander in Battle of Arausio (105 BCE) he suffered a catastrophic loss. Father of Servilia (mother of Brutus and mistress of Caesar)

🏛️ Career

  1. 100 BCE
    (aged 31)
    Quaestor

    Broughton: Caepio protested the burden of Saturninus' grain law upon the treasury, and for his violent resistence was later prosecuted under the Lex Appuleia de maiestate, but acquitted (a). With his colleague Piso he issued a coinage by decree of the Senate for the purchase of grain (b).

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR1
      • (a) Auct. Ad Herenn. 1.21; 2.17; 4.35; Sall. Hist. 1.62 M
      • (b) Grueber, CRRBM 1.170f.: ad fru. emu. ex S. C., and Q(uaestores)
    Career-overlap (1) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Pompeius (): 100 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 91 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 91 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Praetor

    Broughton: Though nowhere specifically termed a Praetor, Servilius Caepio's position among the ex-Consuls and ex-Praetors who served as Legates in the Social War indicates that he had held the office (see 90, Legates). In 91 he was nine years beyond his quaestorship. He was not, so far as we know, prosecuted directly in that year, but Drusus did use against him the threat which Tribunes usually reserved for magistrates in office: that of hurling him from the Tarpeian rock (a). His attack on Scaurus in 92 drew upon him a counter-accusation, perhaps of ambitus in his candidacy (b). See Münzer, APF 300. (MRR2)

    Sources (2)
    Career-overlap (1) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Pompeius (): 100 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 91 BCE (Praetor)

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    Quintus Servilius Caepio (cos. 106)