• Gaius Sextilius,
tribunus militum consulari potestate in 379 BC, in which year an equal number of
patricians and
plebeians were elected to the office. • Sextilia, a
Vestal Virgin, who was condemned for incest, and buried alive in 273 BC. • Lucius Sextilius, one of the
tresviri nocturni, who were accused by the
tribunes of the plebs, and condemned, because they had arrived too late to put out a fire in the
Via Sacra. • Marcus Sextilius, of
Fregellae, assured the consuls of 209 BC, during the
Second Punic War, that eighteen of the Roman
colonies were ready to furnish the state with soldiers, when twelve had refused to do so. •
Publius Sextilius, governor of
Africa in 88 BC, forbade
Marius to land in the country. • Sextilius, an
Etruscan, betrayed
Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo to the assassins of Marius and
Cinna, in 87 BC, although he had previously been defended by Caesar, when accused of a very grave offense. • Sextilius,
legate of
Lucius Licinius Lucullus during the
Mithridatic War, was sent to attack
Tigranocerta. • Sextilius, a
praetor, was carried off by the pirates, shortly before
Pompeius was appointed to the command of the war against them. • Aulus Sextilius, a negotiator or money-lender in
Acmonia, a town in
Phrygia, described by
Cicero as a
homo improbus. • Gaius Sextilius, the nephew of
Marcus Aufidius Lurco, described by
Cicero as a man
et pudens et constans et gravis. He may be the same man as the praetor Sextilius mentioned by
Varro. • Publius Sextilius,
quaestor in 61 BC. • Quintus Sextilius, a friend of
Titus Annius Milo. • Sextilius Andro, of
Pergamum, mentioned by Cicero. • Publius Sextilius Rufus, succeeded to the property of Quintus Fadius Gallus in a dishonorable manner. • Gaius Sextilius Rufus, quaestor in
Cyprus in 47 BC. In the wars following the death of
Caesar, he commanded the fleet of
Gaius Cassius Longinus. • Sextilius Hena, a poet of
Corduba, in
Hispania, wrote a poem on the death of Cicero, of which the first line is quoted by
Seneca. •
Sextilia, a virtuous Roman matron, and the mother of the emperor
Vitellius; she lived to see her son emperor, but died shortly before his fall. • Sextilius Felix, was stationed on the frontiers of
Raetia by
Marcus Antonius Primus in AD 70, to watch the movements of Porcius Septimius, procurator of the province under Vitellius. There he remained until the following year, when he helped to quell an insurrection of the
Treviri. • Sextilius Agesilaus Aedesius, vicar of Hispania between 355 and 376. ==See also==