Gaius Antonius Hybrida

Gaius Antonius Hybrida (flourished 1st century BCE) is a politician of the Roman Republic.

He is the second son of Marcus Antonius Orator and brother of Marcus Antonius Creticus; his mother is unknown.

He is the uncle of the famed triumvir Mark Antony.

His military career starts as a legate and cavalry commander of Lucius Cornelius Sulla during the Mithridatic Wars.

After Sulla's return to Rome, Hybrida remains in Greece with a force of cavalry.

He is supposed to maintain peace and order but ends in plundering the countryside and sacking for his own profit several temples and holy places.

It is the rumors of his plundering and atrocities committed on the local population, which include maiming and torture, that earn him the nickname Hybrida ("half-beast") (Pliny, Nat.

Hist.

viii.

213).

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