Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (consul 203 BC)

Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (died 174 BC) was a Roman statesman who served as Roman consul in 203 BC.[1]

For other Romans with the same name, see Gnaeus Servilius Caepio.

He was elected Pontiff in 213 BC, replacing C. Pupilius Maso;[2] he became Aedile in 207, celebrating the Ludi Romani three times.[3] In 205 he became Praetor.[4] As consul, he was the last Roman general to fight against Hannibal in Bruttium, (South Italy); after the latter left Italy, Caepio crossed over into Sicily planning to go from there into Africa. The Roman Senate, fearing that Caepio would ignore their commands, created a dictator, Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus, to recall him.[5] Later on, in 194 BC, he was sent as a legate to Carthage, causing Hannibal's exile to the court of Antiochus III the Great the Seleucid Emperor.[6] Then in 192 BC, he was sent as a legate into Greece to rile up the Roman allies in a potential conflict with Antiochus the Great.[7]

Cnaeus Servilius died in 174 BC, during a great epidemic.[8]

References
  1. J.C. Yardley (2009). Hannibal's War:, Books 21-30 (Google eBook). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-162330-1.
  2. Livy, XXV, 2
  3. Livy, XXVIII, 10
  4. Livy, XXVIII, 38 and 46
  5. Livy, XXX, 24
  6. Livy, XXXIII, 47 & 49
  7. Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. Vol. 1. Boston, Little. p. 533.
  8. Livy, XLI, 21


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