ANTI0235 Sp. Antius (6)

Life Dates

  • 438, death - violent (Broughton MRR I) Expand

    Murdered by Fidenates.

Career

  • Legatus (Ambassador) 438 Etruria (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • For Cloelius, Cicero has Cluvius; and for Antius, Pliny has Nautius, an early patrician name more likely to appear in accounts of this period; see Fast. Cap. on 458. Krug (5) places these under 426. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Killed by the Fidenates at the command of Lars Tolumnius of Veii, and honored with statues on the Rostra (Cic. Phil. 9.4-5; Liv. 4.17.2-6; Plin. NH 34.23). (Broughton MRR I)