Gaius Antistius Vetus (consul 6 BC)

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Denarius minted by Gaius as monetary magistrate (16-15 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]

Biography

Antistius was the son of Gaius Antistius Vetus, consul in 30 BC.[2] Between 26 and 24 BC, Antistius participated in the Cantabrian Wars, serving with the Emperor Augustus for most of the campaign as a legate. Together with his colleague Gaius Firmius, they fought a difficult campaign to subdue the Gallaeci tribes of the more remote forested and mountainous parts of Gallaecia bordering the Atlantic Ocean, defeating them only after a series of severe battles,[3] though the details of this particular campaign remain unknown.

Due to the Emperor's illness, Antistius commanded the five legions of Rome at the

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

Gaius Antistius Vetus.[5]

His sons, Gaius and

Lucius, became Roman consuls in the years 23 and 26 respectively. Velleius Paterculus notes that he was still living in AD 30.[6]

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. Paulus Orosius
    , Historiae Adversus Paganos, 6: 21, 2.
  4. ^ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 52
  5. ^ K. M. T. Atkinson, "The Governors of the Province Asia in the Reign of Augustus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 7 (1958), p. 328
  6. ^ Velleius Paterculus, II.43, 4
Political offices
Preceded by
Roman consul
6 BC
with Decimus Laelius Balbus
 Succeeded by
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