A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

14. M.OppiusCapito, occurs on the coins of M. Antonius, struck about B. C. 40, as proprietor and praefectus classis. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 264.) He may be the same as the Oppius Capito, a mnan of praetorian rank, of whom Pliny (Plin. Nat. 7.13. s. 15) relates that he had a scirrhus in his stormach.