Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (consul 203 BC)
Gnaeus Servilius Caepio was a Roman statesman who served as Roman consul in 203 BC.
He was elected Pontiff in 213 BC, replacing C. Pupilius Maso; he became Aedile in 207, celebrating the Ludi Romani three times. In 205 he became Praetor. As consul, he was the last Roman general to fight against Hannibal in Bruttium, ; after the latter left Italy, Caepio crossed over into Sicily planning to go from there into Africa. The Roman Senate, fearing that Caepio would ignore their commands, created a dictator, Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus, to recall him.. Later on, in 194 BC, he was sent as a legate to Carthage, causing Hannibal's exile to Antiochus III the Great's court.
Then in 192 BC, he was sent as a legate into Greece to rile up the Roman allies in a potential conflict with Antiochus the Great.
Cnaeus Servilius died in 174 BC, during a great epidemic.
