Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul AD 12)

Gaius Fonteius Capito (fl. AD 12) was a Roman senator during the Principate. He served as ordinary consul as the colleague of Germanicus in AD 12, and later as proconsul of Asia.[1]

Family

Capito was born a member of the plebeian gens Fonteia. He was the son of Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul suffectus of 33 BC), who was a novus homo ("new man") and the first of the Fonteii to obtain the consulship. This Capito's son was also named Gaius Fonteius Capito, and became consul as well in AD 59.

Career

The date the sortition awarded Capito proconsul of Asia was about ten years after his consulship, that is AD 23/24, although Ronald Syme admits it might have occurred the previous year.[1] During the consulship of Cossus Cornelius and Asinius Agrippa in AD 25, Capito was acquitted of charges made against him by the younger Vibius Serenus.[2]

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See also

References
  1. Ronald Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls of Asia", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 53 (1983), p. 191
  2. Tacitus, The Annals, IV.36

Sources
Political offices
Preceded by
Lucius Cassius Longinus,
and Titus Statilius Taurus		 Consul of the Roman Empire
AD 12
with Germanicus		 Succeeded by
Gaius Visellius Varro
as Suffect consul
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