Roman plebeian nomen gentile, often confused with Siccius; members of the family frequently appear as people's tribunes in the 5th cent. BC, but the family is otherwise insignificant.
Tradition links S. with the origins and early development of the people's tribunate (tribunus plebis): S. was firstly the initiator of the secessio plebis of 494 BC and then one of the people's tribunes, subsequently elected for the first t…
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Müller, Christian (Bochum),
Schmitt, Tassilo (Bielefeld) and
Eck, Werner (Cologne),
“Sicinius”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
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