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Publius Sestius

Praetor in 54 BCE. Served as quaestor for Hibrida and helped put down the second Catilinarian conspiracy. Also helped with Cicero's recall from exile.

🏛️ Career

  1. 63 BCE
    Quaestor

    Broughton: Returned first at the polls, he was especially attached to the staff of C. Antonius, but aided Cicero at Capua, and then returned to Rome, and at the end of the year joined Antonius in Etruria. (MRR2)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Sest. 8-11; Vat. 11-12; cf. Cat. 1.21; Schol. Bob. 126 Stangl
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 54 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Atilius Serranus Gavianus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Quaestor) , 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    T. Fadius Gallus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Quaestor) , 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    Ap. Claudius Pulcher (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 57 BCE (Praetor) , 54 BCE (Consul)

    C. Fannius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 54 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 57 BCE
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: The Tribune who, with Milo, worked most actively for Cicero's recall, meeting Clodius' violence with violence at great risk to his life, and also tried to prevent Clodius' election to the aedileship of 56; defended by Cicero when prosecuted in 56 for breach of the peace (a).

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Cic. Att. 3.17.1; 3.19.2, and 23.4; 4.3.3; QF 1.4, cf. 2.3.5-6, and 4.1; P. Red. in Sen. 20, and 30; P. Red. ad Quir. 15; Sest. passim; Vat. 41; Mil. 38; Schol. Bob. 125, and 128 Stangl
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 54 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Atilius Serranus Gavianus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Quaestor) , 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    T. Fadius Gallus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Quaestor) , 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    Ap. Claudius Pulcher (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 57 BCE (Praetor) , 54 BCE (Consul)

    C. Fannius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 54 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 54 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: The appearance of the members of this group (Tubero, Cotta, Nonianus, Fannius Postimius, Sestius and Voconius) as Promagistrates in various provinces and commands in 49 after the passage of Pompey's law making mandatory an interval of five years between the city magistracy and the provincial command, suggests that they had held the praetor ship by or before 54 B. C. Fannius at least had good prospects of attaining the praetorship when he was referred to in 56 (see above). It is not clear how far the emergency caused exemptions from the law in 49, nor does it appear to have applied to the magistrates in office in 52.

    Sources (1)
    • MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 57 BCE (Aedile) , 54 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Atilius Serranus Gavianus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Quaestor) , 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    T. Fadius Gallus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 63 BCE (Quaestor) , 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    Ap. Claudius Pulcher (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 57 BCE (Praetor) , 54 BCE (Consul)

    C. Fannius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 54 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Parents
    Lucius Sestius (tr. pl. 91)
  2. Children
    Lucius Sestius (cos. suff. 23)