QUINTUS SERVILIUS

See also:

• QUINTUS SERVILIUS CAEPIO

CAEPIO  , Roman general, consul so6 B.C . During his year of office, he brought forward a law by which the jurymen were again to be chosen from the senators instead of the equites (Tacitus, Ann. xii . 6o) . As governor of Gallia Narbonensis, he plundered the temple of the Celtic Apollo at Tolosa (Toulouse), which had joined the Cimbri . In 105, Caepio suffered a crushing defeat from the Cimbri at Arausio (Orange) on the Rhone, which was looked upon as a punishment for his sacrilege; hence the proverb Aurum Tolosanum habet, of an act involving disastrous consequences . In the same year he was deprived of his proconsulship and his property confiscated; subsequently (the chronology is obscure, see Mommsen, History of Rome, bk. iv. ch . 5) he was expelled from the senate, accused by the tribune Norbanus of embezzlement and misconduct during the war, condemned and imprisoned . He either died during his confinement or escaped to Smyrna . Livy, Epit . 67; Valerius Maximus iv . 7 . 3; Justin xxxii .

3; Aulus

Gellius iii . 9 .