SEXT1723 P. Sextius (1)

Career

  • Quaestor 111 Numidia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • He may possibly be identified with the P. Sextius (RE no. 9), Praetorelect who was convicted of bribery toward 90 B.C. (Cic. Brut. 180). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Served under the Consul Bestia in Numidia (Sall. Iug. 29.4; cf. Cic. Brut. 180). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Quaestor of the consul L. Calpurnius Bestia in 111 (Sall. lug. 29.4-6; MRR 1.541, 543, note 4). He should more probably be identified with C. Sextius C. f. Calvinus (21), Pr. ca. 92 (see ILLRP 291; MRR 2.18) than with P. Sextius (9), who was convicted toward 90 of ambitus while pr. desig. (Cic. Brut. 180). See Sumner, Orators 76-77.[198x] (Broughton MRR III)