Gaius Antistius Vetus (consul 6 BC)

Gaius Antistius Vetus was a Roman senator active during the early Roman Empire, and a consul in 6 BC as the colleague of Decimus Laelius Balbus.[1]

Denarius minted by Gaius as monetary magistrate (16-15 BC).

Biography

Antistius, a member of the gens Antistia, was the son of Gaius Antistius Vetus the elder, consul in 30 BC.[2] Between 26-24 BC Antistius participated in the Cantabrian Wars, serving with the Emperor Augustus for most of the campaign. Due to the Emperor's illness, Antistius commanded the five legions of Rome at the Siege of Aracillum in 25 BC. Antistius served with Augustus at Amaya, Bergida, and Monte Vindio, and after the successful campaign, went on to become the provincial governor (Proconsul) of Hispania Citerior.

Antistius began his political career as a triumvir monetalis in 16-15 BC.[3] He returned to Rome to serve as consul, in 6 BC, and later he served as the Proconsul of Asia in either AD 2/3 or 3/4, assisted by his oldest son Gaius Antistius Vetus.[4]

His sons, Gaius and Lucius, became Roman consuls in the years 23 and 26 respectively. Velleius Paterculus notes that he was still living in AD30.[5]

See also

References
  1. Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
  2. Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 425
  3. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 52
  4. K. M. T. Atkinson, "The Governors of the Province Asia in the Reign of Augustus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 7 (1958), p. 328
  5. Velleius Paterculus, II.43, 4
Political offices
Preceded by
Tiberius Claudius Nero II,
and Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso		 Consul of the Roman Empire
6 BC
with Decimus Laelius Balbus		 Succeeded by
Imp. Caesar Divi filius Augustus XII,
and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus
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