Gaius Caninius Rebilus

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Gaius Caninius Rebilus, a member of the plebeian gens Caninia, was a Roman general and politician. He was appointed consul suffectus in 45 BC.

Rebilus served as one of Julius Caesar's legates in Gaul in 52 BC and 51 BC. Upon the outbreak of the civil war, Rebilus accompanied him in his march into Italy and he was sent by Caesar as an unsuccessful negotiator to Pompey. In 49 BC he was sent by Caesar as a legate under Gaius Scribonius Curio and after the latter's defeat and death, he was one of the few who escaped from Africa Province. In 46 BC he again returned to Africa with Caesar, under whom he served in the Thapsus campaign. The next year he accompagnied Caesar to Spain to fight in the last stand of the Republicans at Munda. On the last day of December 45 BC, the consul Quintus Fabius Maximus suddenly died and Caesar made Rebilus consul suffectus for the few remaining hours of the year.