Gaius Fonteius Agrippa

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For other with this surname, see Agrippa (disambiguation).

Gaius Fonteius Agrippa was the name of two related people in Roman history:

  • Gaius Fonteius Agrippa was one of the four accusers of Marcus Scribonius Libo in 16 AD.[1][2] Agrippa profited financially from the accusation, as he was rewarded with a share of Libo's property after the man committed suicide. As a result of this prosecution, he was also made praetor in 17 AD.[3] He is again mentioned in 19 AD, as offering his daughter for a vestal virgin, in competition with the daughter of Comicius Pollio, to replace one who had recently died. As Agrippa had been recently divorced, Pollio's daughter won the honor. Even still, as a consolation the emperor Tiberius gave Agrippa's daughter a million sestertii for her dowry.[4][5]

References

  1. The other accusers being Firmius Catus, Vibius Serenus, and Fulcinius Trio
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  4. Tacitus, Annales ii. 30, 86
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  6. Tacitus, Histories iii. 46
  7. Joseph. B. Jud. ii. 4. § 3
Preceded by Suffect consul of the Roman Empire together with Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus
58
Succeeded by
A. Petronius Lurco and A. Paconius Sabinus

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