Anti'stius6. P.Antistius, tribune of the plebs, B. C.
88, opposed in his tribuneship C. Caesar Strabo, who was a candidate for the
consulship without having been praetor. The speech he made upon this occasion brought him into
public notice, and afterwards he frequently had important causes entrusted to him, though he
was already advanced in years. Cicero speaks favourably of his eloquence. In consequence of
the marriage of his daughter to Pompeius Magnus, he supported the party of Sulla, and was put
to death by order of young Marius in B. C. 82. His wife Calpurnia
killed herself upon the death of her husband. (Cic. Brut. 63,
90, pro Rosc. Amer. 32; Vell. 2.26; Appian, App. BC 1.88;
Liv. Epit. 86; Plut. Pomp. 9;
Drumann, Gesch. Roms, i. p. 55.)