His wife may have been a daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus. Ĭaepio was likely married to a Caecilia Metella whom he had three children with, a son named Quintus Servilius Caepio as well as at least two daughters Servilia, the wife of Catulus and Servilia, the wife of Marcus Livius Drusus. Historian Timagenes claimed that he was survived only by his daughters, if true, he must have passed after 90 BC since that was when his son Quintus was killed. Two versions detail what happened thereafter: according to one, Caepio died in prison and his body, mangled by the executioner, was put on display on the Gemonian steps however, according to the more commonly accepted version, he spent the rest of his life in exile in Smyrna in Asia Minor. The huge fine - which greatly exceeded the amount in the Roman treasury - was never collected. Despite being defended by the orator Lucius Licinius Crassus, Caepio was convicted, and was given the harshest sentence allowable: he was stripped of his citizenship, forbidden fire and water within eight hundred miles of Rome, nominally fined 15,000 talents (about 825,000 lb) of gold, and forbidden to see or speak to his friends or family until he had left for exile.
He was then tried for “the loss of his army” by two tribunes of the plebs, Gaius Norbanus and Lucius Appuleius Saturninus. Cassius Longinus / University of Dartmouth Then, he was tried in the courts for the theft of the Tolosa gold, but with many senators on the jury, he was acquitted. Based on this law, Caepio was stripped of his seat in the Senate. A law proposed by Lucius Cassius Longinus stripped any person of his seat in the Senate if he had had his imperium revoked by the Senate. Upon his return to Rome, Caepio was stripped of his proconsulship by the Assembly. Caepio refused to camp with Maximus and his troops when the battle began, both Roman armies were overrun and defeated by the massively numerically superior Cimbri force, resulting in the deaths of some 60 to 80 thousand Roman soldiers. Leading one of the two Roman armies into the Battle of Arausio, this refusal to cooperate with his superior officer, led to the destruction of both armies. While the sitting consul outranked Caepio, Caepio refused to cooperate with the consul and his army. Also tasked to defeat the Cimbri was the consul for that year, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, who was a novus homo (“new man”). The Gold of Tolosa was never found.ĭuring the southern migration of the Cimbri in 105 BC, Caepio was assigned an army to defeat the migrating tribe. The riches of Tolosa were shipped back to Rome, but only the silver made it the gold was stolen by a band of marauders, who were rumoured to have been hired by Caepio himself.
There, he found some 50 thousand bars of gold and 10 thousand bars of silver which were legendarily stolen from the temple of Delphi by the Sordisci in the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC. Photo by Traumrune, Wikimedia CommonsĪfter his consulship, he was assigned to Gaul, where he captured the town of Tolosa, ancient Toulouse. Vomitorium at the Roman amphitheatre in Tolosa (ancient Toulouse).
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