A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

CAEPIO.
Germ. 37; Vell. Pat, ii. 12; Val. Max. iv. 7. ~ 3;
Plut. Mar. 19, Sertor. 3, Lucull. 27.)
Caepio survived the battle, but was deprived of
the imperium by the people. Ten years afterwards
(B. C. 95) he was brought to trial by the tribune
C. Norbanus on account of his misconduct in this
war, and although he was defended by the orator
L. Licinius Crassus, who was consul in that year
(Cic. Brut. 44), and by many others of the Roman aristocracy, he was condemned and his property confiscated. He himself was cast into prison,
where according to one account he died, and his
body, mangled by the common executioner, was
afterwards exposed to view on the Gemonian steps.
(Val. Max. vi. 9. ~ 13.) But according to the
more generally received account, he escaped from
prison through the assistance of the tribune L.
Antistius Reginus, and lived in exile at Smyrna.
(Val. Max. iv. 7. ~ 3; Cic. pro Balb. 11.)
8. Q. SERVILIUS CAEPIO, quaestor urbanus in
B. c. 100. He may have been the son of No. 7,
but as the latter in all probability obtained the
monsulship at the usual age, it is not likely that he
had a son old enough to obtain the quaestorship
six years afterwards. In his quaestorship Caepio
opposed the lex frumentaria of the tribune L.
Saturninus, and when Saturninus insisted upon putting the law to the vote, notwithstanding the veto
of his colleagues, Caepio interrupted the voting by
force of arms, and thus prevented the law from
being carried., He was accused in consequence of
treason (majestas), and it was perhaps upon this
occasion that T. Betucius Barrus spoke against
him. The oration of Caepio in reply was written
for him by L. Aelius Praeconinus Stilo, who composed orations for him as well as for other distinguished Romans at that time. (Auct. ad Herenn.
i. 12; Cic. Brut. 46, 56.)
In the contests of the year B. c. 91, Caepio deserted the cause of the senate and espoused that of
the equites in opposition to the lex judiciaria of
the tribune M. Livius Drusus, who proposed to
divide the judicia between the senate and the
equites. Caepio and Drusus had formerly been
very intimate friends, and had exchanged marriages, by which we are to understand, that
Caepio had married a sister of Drusus and Drusus
a sister of Caepio, and not that they had exchanged wives, as some modern writers would interpret
it. The enmity between the brothers-in-law is
said to have arisen from competition in bidding for
a ring at a public auction (Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 1.
s. 6), but whatever may have been its origin,
it was now of a most determined and violent
character. The city was torn asunder by their
contentions, and seemed almost to be divided between two hostile armies. To strike terror into
the senate, Caepio accused two of the most distinguished leaders of the body, M. Aemilius Scaurus
of extortion (repetundae), and L. Marcius Philippus, the consul, of bribery (ambitus). Both accusations, however, seem to have failed, and Scaurus,
before his trial came on, retaliated by accusing
Caepio himself. (Dion Cass. Frag. cix. ex. p. 45;
Flor. iii. 17; Plin. H. N. xxviii. 9. s. 41; Cic.
pro Dom. 46, Brut. 62, pro Scaur. 1; Ascon. in
Scaur. p. 21, ed. Orelli.) The assassination of
Drusus shortly afterwards was supposed by some
to have been committed at the instigation of Caepio. (Aurel. Vict. de Vir. III. 66.)
On the breaking out of the social war in the

CAERELLIA. 535
following year, B. c. 90, Caepio again accused his
old enemy Scaurus under the provisions of the
Varia lex, which had been passed to bring all to
trial who had been instrumental in causing the
revolt of the allies. (Cic. pro Scaur. 1; Ascon. in
Scaur. p. 22.) Caepio took an active part in this
war, in which he served as the legate of the consul
P. Rutilius Lupus, and upon the death of the
latter he received, in conjunction with C. Marius,
the command of the consular army. Caepio at
first gained some success, but was afterwards decoyed into an ambush by Pompaedius, the leader of
the enemy's army, who had pretended to revolt to
him, and he lost his life in consequence. (B. c. 90.)
(Appian, B. C. i. 40, 44; Liv. Epit. 73.)
9. Q. SERVILImUS CAEPIO, son of No. 8, was a
tribune of the soldiers in the war against Spartacus,
B. c. 72. He died shortly afterwards at Aenus in
Thrace, on his road to Asia. He is called the
brother of Cato Uticensis, because his mother Livia
had been married previously to M. Porcius Cato,
by whom she had Cato Uticensis. (Plut. Cat.
Min. 8, 11.)
10. 11. SERVILIAE. [SERVILIA.]
12. Q. SERVILIUS CAEPIO BRUTUTS. [BRUTUS,
No. 21.]
13. CN. SERVILIUS CAEPIO, the father of Servilia, the wife of Claudius, perished by shipwreck.
Who he was is uncertain. (Cic. ad Alt. xii. 20.)
14. SERVILIUS CAEPIO, was one of Caesar's
supporters in his consulship (B. c. 59) against Bibulus. He had been betrothed to Caesar's daughter, Julia, but was obliged to give her up in favour
of Pompey. As a compensation for her loss, he
received the promise of Pompey's daughter, who
had likewise been betrothed to Faustus Sulla.
(Appian, B. C. ii. 14; Suet. Caes. 21; Plut. Caes.
14, Pomp. 47; comp. Dion Cass. xxxviii. 9.)
CAE'PIO, FA'NNIUS, conspired with Murena
against Augustus in B. c. 22. He was accused of
treason (majestas) by Tiberius, and condemned
by the judges in his absence, as he did not stand
his trial, and was shortly afterwards put to death.
(Dion Cass. liv. 3; Vell. Pat. ii. 91; Suet. Aug.
19, Tib. 8; Senec. de Clem. 9, de Brevit. Vit. 5.)
CAE'PIO CRISPI'NUS, quaestor in Bithynia,
accused Granius Marcellus, the governor of that
province, of treason in A. D. 15. From this time
he became one of the state informers under Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. i. 74.) He may be the same as
the Caepio mentioned by Pliny (H. N. xxi. 4.
s. 10), who lived in the reign of Tiberius, and
seems to have written a work on botany.
CAERE'LLIA, a Roman lady of the time of
Cicero, who was distinguished for her acquirements
and a great love of philosophical pursuits. She
was connected with Cicero by friendship, and studied his philosophical writings with great zeal.
She was a woman of considerable property, and
had large possessions in Asia. These estates and
their procuratores were strongly recommended, in
B. c. 46, by Cicero (ad Fam. xiii. 72) to the care
of P. Servilius. Cicero, in his recommendatory
letter, speaks of her as an intimate friend, though,
on other occasions, he seems to be rather inclined
to sneer at her. (Ad. Att. xii. 51, xiii. 21, 22, xiv.
19, xv. 1, 26.) Q. Fufius Calenus charges Cicero
with having, in his old age, had an adulterous connexion with Caerellia. (Dion Cass. xlvi. 18.) How
far this charge may be true, it is not easy to say;
the only facts which are attested beyond a doubt