Publius Sestius edit

Career

1. 63 BCE
   Quaestor edit

   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)

2. 57 BCE
   Tribune of the Plebs edit

   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. (MRR)

3. 54 BCE
   Praetor edit

   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. (MRR2)

Family