Gaius Fonteius Capito (suffect consul 33 BC)

Gaius Fonteius Capito was a member of the plebeian family of the font eggs and was towards the end of the Roman Republic 33 BC Suffektkonsul.

Life

Gaius Fonteius Capito, who had a same father, was a friend of the triumvir Mark Antony. Maybe he was about 39 BC, tribune of the people, and held at that time already a priesthood, as an inscription from Kos indicates. 39/38 BC he managed with proprätorischem probably one of the empire located in the east of the Roman Empire provinces of Antony and then coined coins with his portrait and that of his wife Octavia. In the year 37 BC, and thus at a time when the tensions between Antony and Octavian its Triumviratskollegen increased again, Fonteius Capito was as Antony's representative in Italy. He traveled on behalf of Octavian along with its familiar Gaius Maecenas and his friend Lucius Cocceius Nerva with two triumvirs of Tarracina out to Brundisium, to negotiate with Anthony and prepare the Treaty of Tarentum. After the conclusion of the contract Antony sailed in the autumn of 37 BC, again in the East and sent Fonteius Capito to Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra to Egypt to lead them to Antioch in Syria. There was the headquarters of the triumvirs, where it now the Winter 37/36 BC spent with Cleopatra.

Lastly Fonteius Capito, who may be identical with the aforementioned John Lydos Roman antiquarian Fonteius, mentioned in the year 33 BC, in which he held the Suffektkonsulat in the months of May and June. He had a son of the same name, who held 12 AD the consulate.