Gaius Ateius Capito, a close friend of Cicero who is described as having supported him through every vicissitude of fortune, including financially. A consistent admirer of Caesar. He is the beneficiary (heir to half and a third) of the estate of his deceased relative Titus Antistius (quaestor in Macedonia). Cicero writes to L. Munatius Plancus asking him to secure Caesar's recognition of Capito's inheritance (13.29). Not the Augustan-era jurist Gaius Ateius Capito (cos. suff. AD 5), who is a later generation.