Gaius Julius Aquila

Gaius Julius Aquila was a praefectus of Roman Egypt between 10 CE and 11.^[1][2]

Gaius Julius Aquila was a Roman knight, stationed with a few cohorts, in 45 CE, to protect Tiberius Julius Cotys I, king of the Bosporan Kingdom, who had received the sovereignty after the expulsion of Tiberius Julius Mithridates; the former two won a victory against the latter in a battle on the Don. In the same year, Aquila obtained the praetorian insignia.^[3] He also erected a monument honouring the emperor Claudius in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) known as the Kuşkayası Monument.^[4]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Aquila, Gaius Julius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 252.