Sestia (gens)

Origin

Praenomina

Branches and cognomina

Members

• Vibius Sestius Capitolinus, grandfather of Publius Sestius Capitolinus, the consul of 452 BC.
• Publius Sestius V. f. Capitolinus, father of Publius, the consul of 452 BC.
• Publius Sestius P. f. V. n. Capitolinus Vaticanus, consul in 452 BC; the following year, he was one of the decemvirs charged with drawing up the first ten tables of Roman law.
• Publius Sestius, accused of murder by Gaius Julius Iulus, one of the decemvirs, in 451 BC; apparently a different man from the decemvir Capitolinus.
• Publius Sestius, quaestor in 414 BC.
• Lucius Sestius, tribune of the plebs, probably early in the first century BC. Cicero calls him Lucius, but in the Capitoline Fasti, his grandson's filiation is P. f. Vibi n.
• Publius Sestius L. f., praetor in 53 BC; he was a friend and ally of Cicero, by whom he was defended in 56. He was with Pompeius on the outbreak of the Civil War, but subsequently went over to Caesar, who sent him into Cappadocia in 48 BC.
• Lucius Sestius Pansa, made a demand resisted by Quintus Tullius Cicero in 54 BC.
• Publius Sestius P. f., to whom Cicero wrote circa 53 BC, had been condemned for an unknown offense.
• Titus Sestius Gallus, owned the land where Publius Clodius Pulcher was slain in 52 BC.
• Lucius Sestius P. f. L. n., consul suffectus in 23 BC.