Quintus Servilius Caepio

Quintus Servilius Caepio was a politician of the late Roman Republic.

The son of the consul of 140 BC was the same 129-126 BC legate in Asia and 109 praetor in the province of Hispania ulterior where he fought against the Lusitanians. After his return, 107 BC, he celebrated a triumph. 106 BC he was consul, and made the control of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus undone, who had given the Knights instead of the senators the right to sit as jurors to court.

105 BC went Caepio as proconsul for Gaul to fight together with the consul of the year, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, against the Cimbri. However, since he as a homo novus despised this, he caused the heavy Roman defeat at the Battle of Arausio ( orange). Caepio lost his empire and his status as a senator. 104 BC, he was also ( aurum Tolosanum ) accused of embezzlement of a treasure he had stolen during the Volcae in Tolosa, in the following year for treason. Before sentencing, he fled into exile in Smyrna and died there.

His son of the same fell during a proconsular commands 90 BC