The gens Insteia was a minor family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens held any of the curule magistracies under the Republic, but several served as military commanders under Rome's leading generals during the first century BC, and during Imperial times. By the second century, the family was important enough to obtain the consulship.
Gaius Insteius, a cavalry commander under Sertorius in 76 BC, sent to the country of the Vaccaei in order to obtain fresh horses.[1]
Marcus Insteius, elected plebeian tribune in 43 BC, was denounced by Cicero as a supporter of Mark Antony. He came from Pisaurum, where he was a bath attendant.[2][3] Together with Marcus Octavius, Insteius commanded the center of Antony's fleet at the Battle of Actium in 31.[4]
Insteius Capito, a centurion under the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in the east. He received hostages given by Vologases following a defeat. The Insteius Capito whom Corbulo installed as Praefectus castrorum over a number of small fortifications in Armenia is probably the same man.[6]
Marcus Insteius Bithynicus, consul suffectus in AD 162.
Laura Van Abbema, The Autonomy and Influence of Roman Women in the Late First/Early Second Century CE: Social History and Gender Discourse, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2008).
December 16, 2023
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