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Roman Inscription showing the cursus Honorum of Gnaeus Octavius Titinius Capito[1]

Gnaeus Octavius Titinius Capito (- 1st century, - 2nd century) was a Roman eques, officer, and civil servant active during the first and second century AD.

Life

A member of the Titinia gens, he served successfully in the army, later becoming secretary ab epistulis under the Emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.[2][3] He ended his career of civil servant becoming Praefectus vigilum.[2] He was a friend of Pliny the Younger,[3] with whom he kept up a correspondence.[2] We are left with a letter addressed by him to Pliny, where he advised his friend to devote himself to history, and with the answer of Pliny.[2][4] He also wrote about the deaths of famous men,[3] and was a supporter of literates.[2] Moreover, he honored republican heroes by keeping in his house statues of Cato Uticensis, Brutus, and Cassius[2][3] bearing elogia written by himself.[5]

References

  1. Шаблон:CIL = ILS 1448
  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 Farquhar (2012)
  3. 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 Шаблон:Cite encyclopedia
  4. Pliny the Younger, 5.8.
  5. Pauly (1905), p.2450

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