person
Gaius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony)
C. Antonius
also: C. Antoni, Gaius Antonius
Gaius Antonius, younger brother of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), praetor in 44 BC and governor in Macedonia; Brutus detained him in 43 BC, and he was held responsible for instigating a mutiny in the Fourteenth Legion through treachery.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 15.19 §2 did Gaius Antonius wish to be made a member of the board of seven?
Gaius Antonius, Mark Antony's brother and praetor in 44 BC; the 'board of seven' (septemviri) was the agrarian commission for distributing land, a coveted and lucrative post.
- Ad M. Brutum 1.2 §3 treachery of C. Antonius
Gaius Antonius, younger brother of Mark Antony, had been captured by Brutus in Macedonia in 43 BC; as Brutus's prisoner he was suspected of inciting the mutiny in the Fourteenth Legion from within captivity.
- Tenth Philippic §9 Gaius Antonius
Antony's brother, who tried to seize Macedonia in 43 BC but was checked and besieged by Marcus Brutus. He is the middle of the three Antonii, here said to have rivalled both brothers in vice.
- Seventh Philippic §3 Macedonia he calls his own outright, since his brother Gaius has been recalled from there
Gaius Antonius, Mark Antony's brother, had been sent to govern Macedonia, but the Senate transferred the province (and its legions) to Marcus Brutus. Cicero notes Antony's claim that he is owed Macedonia in compensation.