Publius Sestius
Publius Sestius (d. after 35 BC)[citation needed] was a Roman politician and governor in the 1st century BC.
He first appears as
tribunes of the plebs for 57 BC. During his year as tribune, he worked to have Cicero recalled from exile, combatted – with Titus Annius Milo – the urban mobs of Publius Clodius Pulcher, and also attempted to disrupt Clodius' election as aedile in that year.[2] He was Cicero's friend and ally; Cicero later defended him in Pro Sestio on charges of public violence in 56 BC.[2]
He also had served as
Caesar's Civil War he joined Pompey, becoming the governor of Cilicia probably with the rank of proconsul.[5] Marcus Junius Brutus accompanied him to the province.[6] After the Battle of Pharsalus in which Pompey was decisively defeated, Sestius was pardoned by Julius Caesar and campaigned with Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus in Asia minor.[7]
He was the son of a man by the same name and a woman named Postumia,[8] and the father of Lucius Sestius.
References
- ^ Broughton 1952, pp. 165–68.
- ^ a b Broughton 1952, p. 202.
- ^ Broughton 1952, p. 620.
- ^ Broughton 1952, p. 222.
- ^ Broughton 1952, p. 264.
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- ^ Broughton 1952, p. 278.
- ^ Smith, William (1876). "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Oarses-Zygia".
Sources
- Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1952). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Publius Sestius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
External links
- ISBN 0-6749-9341-1– via Attalus.org.
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