Gaius Julius Aquila was the name of a number of people who lived during the Roman Empire.
Prefect of Egypt Gaius Julius Aquila was a praefectus of Roman Egypt between 10 CE and 11.Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), p. 269 = ILS 9370
Governor of Bythinia et Pontus 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.Tacitus, Annals 12.15, 21 He also erected a monument honouring the emperor Claudius in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) known as the Kuşkayası Monument. = ILS 5883
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