Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (died 174 BC) was a Roman statesman who served as Roman consul in 203 BC.[1]
He was elected Pontiff in 213 BC, replacing C. Pupilius Maso;[2] he became Aedile in 207, celebrating the Ludi Romani three times.[3] In 205 he became Praetor.[4] As consul, he was the last Roman general to fight against Hannibal in Bruttium, (South Italy) where many cities surrendered to him;[5] 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.[6] Later on, in 194 BC, he was sent as a legate to Carthage, causing Hannibal's exile to the court of Antiochus III the Great the Seleucid Emperor.[7] 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.[8]
Cnaeus Servilius died in 174 BC, during a great epidemic.[9]