Quintus Servilius Caepio

Quintus Servilius Caepio was a Roman consul and general who became infamous for two major scandals. In 106 BCE while serving in Gaul he looted the sacred gold from the temple at Tolosa (modern Toulouse) — the aurum Tolosanum — which subsequently disappeared under mysterious circumstances. As proconsul in 105 BCE, his refusal to cooperate with his superior Gnaeus Mallius Maximus out of aristocratic disdain for a novus homo allowed the Cimbri to defeat the two Roman armies separately at the Battle of Arausio on the Rhone. The disaster, in which perhaps 80,000 soldiers and camp followers perished, was the largest Roman defeat since Cannae and led directly to Marius's military reforms.

• Nationality: roman
• Roles: general