CAEPIO, QUINTUS SERVILIUS, Roman general, consul 106 B.C. During his year of office he brought forward a law by which the jurymen were again to be chosen from the senators instead of the equites (Tacitus, Ann. xii. 6o; but see Mommsen, Romisches Staatsrecht, iii. 531, 2.). As governor of Gallia Nar bonensis, he plundered the temple of the Celtic Apollo at Tolosa (Toulouse), the inhabitants of which had joined the Cimbri. In 505 Caepio suffered a crushing defeat from the Cimbri at Arausio (Orange). In the same year he was deprived of his proconsulship and his property confiscated ; subsequently he was expelled from the senate, convicted of embezzlement and misconduct, and im prisoned. He either died during his imprisonment or escaped to Smyrna.
See Livy, Epit. 67 ; Valerius Maximus, iv. 7. 3 ; Justin xxxii. 3 ; Aulus Gellius iii. 9.