Gnaeus Octavius (consul 76 BC)

Gnaeus Octavius ​​was a Roman politician of the late Republic.

Octavius ​​was a son of the tribune Marcus Octavius ​​and a grandson of Gnaeus Octavius ​​(probably of the consul of 128 BC). He was probably in the year 79 BC, praetor urbanus and defined in the so-called by the later jurists formula Octaviana the offense of coercion through fear ( metus ). 76 BC, Octavius ​​was consul. He was a friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Presumably, the aedile and Pompeian fleet leader in the Civil War, Marcus Octavius ​​, his son.

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  • Roman jurist
  • Consul ( Roman Republic )
  • Octavier
  • Born in the 2nd century BC
  • Died in the 1st century BC
  • Man
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