Gaius Coelius Caldus or Gaius Caelius Caldus was a politician of ancient Rome

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 of the late 2nd and early 1st century BC.

In 107 BC

107 BC

Year 107 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ravilla and Marius...

, he was a tribune

Tribune

Tribune was a title shared by elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the right to propose legislation before it. They were sacrosanct, in the sense that any assault on their person was...

 and passed a lex tabellaria, which ordained that in the courts of justice the votes should be given by means of tables in cases of high treason.

In 94 BC

94 BC

Year 94 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caldus and Ahenobarbus...

, he became consul with Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 94 BC)

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was a politician of ancient Rome of the late 2nd and early 1st century BC. He served as praetor in Sicily, probably in 96 BC, shortly after the Second Servile War, when slaves had been forbidden to carry arms. He ordered a slave to be crucified for killing a wild boar...

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During Sulla's second civil war

Sulla's second civil war

Sulla's second civil war was one of a series of civil wars of ancient Rome. It was fought between Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gaius Marius the younger in 82 BC.-Prelude:...

 he tried to help Gaius Marius the Younger

Gaius Marius the Younger

Gaius Marius Minor, also known in English as Marius the Younger or informally "the younger Marius" , was the adopted son of Gaius Marius, who was seven times consul, and a famous military commander. Appian first describes him as the son of the great Marius, but in a subsequent passage, he is...

 by preventing Pompey

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic...

 from joining his forces to Sulla, but failed. Coelius' portrait appears on a small series of Roman silver coins from the late republic.