Gens: SESTIUS  
Created: 1st January 2012
Update:  13th December 2016
Status Republic: Patrician: X   Pleb. Nobilis:       Senatorial: X    Eques Romanus: X    Local magistrates  
Republican Family / Cognomen
Patrician Capito Vaticanus
Pleb. Nobilis n/a
Senatorial no cognomen, Pansa
Equestrian no cognomen
Local magistrat. n/a
Imperial Family / Cognomen
Imperators n/a
Consular Quirinalis
Senatorial Pollio
Equestrian Florus?, Panthera
Local magistrat. n/a
Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors 1
Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars) 1 incl. 0 emperors
Notes: Often called Sextius. There were Sestii as local magistrates at Pompeii.
Literature Alföldy: Fasti Hispanienses (1969) p.133 (L.Sestius Quirinalis)
Halfmann: Die Senatoren (1979) p.136 (§41 P.Sestius Pollio S614)
Shacketon Bailey, D.R.: "Albanius or Albinius? A Palinode Resung", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 92 (1989), pp. 213-214
supports Albanius iin stead of Albinius as RE6's father in law.
Changes 13.12.2016 New header plus minor updates
RE15 RE1
P.Sestius Q.f.Vibi.n. Capito Vaticanus L. (or P.) Sestius
cos 452 X vir cos 451 ment 451
Cicero: L.Sestius homo nobilis
Livy: patrician
RE5
P.Sestius (or Sextius?)
q 414
RE4
M.Sestius M.f.
from Fregellae
proxenos in Delos 190
?= M.Sextilius from Fregellae 209
RE2
L.Sestius
tr pl by 91
† by 57
 
RE6   RE8 RE10
P.Sestius L.f.   Q.Sestius L.Sestius Pansa
trib.Col. conspirator in Hisp Ult q 54
* c.95 tr mil,  q 63, proq Macedon 62 vs Q.Cassius Longinus 48
tr pl 57 trial 56 (Cicero Pro Sestio) pr 54/50 purchased his aquittal
procos Cilicia 49-47 last ment 35
1 ~ Albania † 72 (or Albinia) dt of C.Albanius (or Albinius)
2 ~ Cornelia d of L.Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus cos 83
1 1
S611 RE3 RE11a RE13
L.Sestius P.f.L.n Alb(anianus) Qurinalis     Sestia
* c.73 q 44 proq of M.Brutus 43-42 cos suff 23 * c.72
leg Aug pro pr Hisp Ult (or Transduriana) c.22-19 married by 56
Transduriana = regions of Asturia and Callaecia
or Albinianus
REPUBLIC
IMPERIAL                                                      
C.Sestius Florus
~ dt of M.Antonius Flamma A831
 
S614 RE10a
P.Sestius C.f. Pollio
q urb , aed cur, pr
leg pro pr of procos Creta/cyrene
sacerdos of Apollo in Cyrene 111/112
S613
C.Sestius Panthera
under Hadrian
procur Aug regio Hipponiensis in Africa
UNCERTAIN DATE