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Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul 59)

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1st century AD Roman senator and consul

Gaius Fonteius Capito was a Roman senator, who was active during the Principate. He was consul in the year 59 as the colleague of Gaius Vipstanus Apronianus.

Capito came from a plebeian family whose members had reached the rank of praetor since the 2nd century BC, but none had achieved the consulate until the end of the republic in 33 BC, when Gaius Fonteius Capito acceded to that magistracy. According to Cicero, the Fonteii came from Tusculum. Capito was probably the son or grandson of the eponymous consul of the year 12; his brother Fonteius Capito was one of the consuls of the year 67.

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References

  1. Paul A. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", Classical Quarterly, 24 (1974), p. 291, 310
  2. Friedrich Münzer, "Fonteius", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1909), volume VI,2, col. 2841
  3. Cicero, Pro Fonteio, 41 (31)
  4. Alfred Kappelmacher, "Fonteius (22)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, volume VI,2, col. 2848
Political offices
Preceded byAulus Petronius Lurco
Aulus Paconius Sabinusas suffecti 		Roman consul
59
with Gaius Vipstanus Apronianus 		Succeeded byTitus Sextius Africanus
Marcus Ostorius Scapulaas suffecti


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