FONT2861 C. Fonteius (20) C. f. Capito

Life Dates

  • 80?, birth (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

son of
C. Fonteius (7) (leg. lieut. 74) (RE)

Career

  • Tribunus Plebis? 39 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. suff. 33. The unpublished inscription of Cos which names him as a priest (see MRR 2.486; M. H. Lewis, Official Priests of Rome 62, suggests that he was a pontifex) also makes him the author of a popular measure in 39, presumably as tribune of the plebs (Münzer, RE, Supbd. 3.258, no. 20; cf. PIR(2) 3.197, no. 469). Insert him with a query in MRR ,2.425 among the priests of 31. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Augur? 39 to after 33 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Cos. suff. 33. The unpublished inscription of Cos which names him as a priest (see MRR 2.486; M. H. Lewis, Official Priests of Rome 62, suggests that he was a pontifex) also makes him the author of a popular measure in 39, presumably as tribune of the plebs (Münzer, RE, Supbd. 3.258, no. 20; cf. PIR(2) 3.197, no. 469). Insert him with a query in MRR ,2.425 among the priests of 31. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Envoy) 37 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Sent by Antony when he returned to the East to bring Cleopatra to him from Egypt to Syria (Plut. Ant. 36.1). See RE, Supb. 3.528; PIR² 3.197, no. 469. (Broughton MRR II)
    • A group, whose journey to Brundisium with the poets Horace, Vergil, Varius, and Plotius, and the rhetor Apollodorus (Heliodorus) in their company is described by Horace (Sat. 1.5; in the spring, see lines 10-15 on the frogs). Their mission preceded the meeting of Antony and Octavian at Tarentum (see Porphyr. on Hor. Sat. 1.5.27, who errs regarding the date and the destination). See De Laet no. 119, on Cocceius; above, on Fonteius. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Consul Suffectus 33 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Entered office on May 1 (Fast. Ven., Degrassi 251, 254f.; Fast. Mag. Vic., ibid. 283, 288; cf. ibid. 136, 508f.; and on Flavius, Dio 49.44, reading #). See PIR² 3.132, no. 188, on Flavius, and 197, no. 469, on Fonteius. (Broughton MRR II)