Gaius Coelius Caldus

Roman senator

Gaius Coelius Caldus
Caldus portrayed in a denarius minted by his grandson in 51 BC^[1]
Nationality	Roman
Office	Consul (94 BC)

Gaius Coelius Caldus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 94 BC alongside his colleague Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.

In 107 BC, Coelius Caldus was elected tribune of the plebs and passed a lex tabellaria, which ordained that in cases of high treason in the courts of justice the voting should be secret with each voter marking their decision on a clay tablet.^[2] Cicero stated that Caldus regretted this law as having been the source of injury to the republic.^[3] He was a praetor in 100 or 99 BC, and proconsul of Hispania Citerior the following year.^[4]

Coelius' portrait appears on a small series of Roman silver coins from the late republic.^[5] Some of his coins feature the boar emblem of Clunia.^[6]

References

^ Crawford, Roman Republican coinage, pp. 457–459
^ William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. I, p. 561 Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
^ Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. Vol. 1. Boston, Little. p. 561.
^ T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, pp. 1 and 3 (note 2).
^ http://www.moneymuseum.com/frontend/coins/periods/coin.jsp?lang=en&i=96767&pid=4529201&gid=51&cid=179&pi=-1&ps=10^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Broughton, MRR², p. 3.

Political offices
Preceded by Lucius Licinius Crassus Q. Mucius Scaevola	Roman consul 94 BC With: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus	Succeeded by Gaius Valerius Flaccus Marcus Herennius