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Quinctius
(3,960 words)
Name of a patrician Roman family, derived from the
praenomen
Quintus (comparable to
Sextus/
Sextius,
etc.), often also
Quintius in inscriptions and MSS. The origin of the family is unknown; its great age is suggested by its connection with the festival of the
Lupercalia (Ov. Fast. 2,378 has
Quintilii) and the unusual
praenomen of the family, Kaeso, encountered in this context (
v. Q. [I 1]). Livy counts them among the families that migrated to Rome from Alba with King Tullius Hostilius (1,32,2; Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 3,29,7 mentions the
Quinctilii). The Quinctii are mentioned many tim…
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Iulius
(18,763 words)
Name of an old patrician family, probably connected with the name of the god Jupiter [1. 281; 2. 729]. The
gens was one of the so-called ‘Trojan families’, who were said to have moved from Alba Longa to Rome under king Tullus Hostilius [I 4] (see below). The Iulii were prominent in the 5th and 4th cents. BC. Their connection to the family branch of the Caesares, which rose to prominence from the 3rd cent. and whose outstanding member was the dictator Caesar (with family tree), is unclear. Caesar's adoptive son,…
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Marcius
(5,160 words)
Old Roman
nomen gentile, derived from the prename Marcus. Tradition knows of a patrician branch with the (mythical) king Ancus M. [I 3] and Cn. M. Coriolanus as its most important members. The younger members of the family (from the 3rd cent.) were plebeian without a link to the patrician Marcii being evident. Important families included the Rutili, later also the Censorini, Tremuli, Reges and Rallae. In the Late Republic the family claimed descent from the kings Ancus M. and Numa Pompilius (therefore the cognomen
Rex, see M. [I 5]; RRC 346; 425; Suet. Iul. 6,1; [4. 154]) as wel…
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Hostilius
(1,203 words)
Old Latin family name, whose origin is unexplained; in inscriptions also
Hostillius and
Hostilus [1. 30; 175]. The great age of the name is shown by the third Roman king Tullus H. [4] and names such as
Curia Hostilia,
Lares Hostilii and the goddess
Hostilina. In historical times, the family was Plebeian and, from the 2nd cent. BC, politically active, particularly in the Tubuli and Mancini branches; it died out at the end of the 1st cent. BC. [German version] [1] H. Praetor and people's tribune in the 2nd cent. BC Praetor or people's tribune in the 2nd cent. BC (?), had a
lex Hostilia passed, w…
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Callisthenes
(547 words)
(Καλλισθένης;
Kallisthénēs). [German version] [1] Of Olynthus, Alexander historian, related to Aristotle Callisthenes of Olynthus, Alexander historian, son of a female cousin of Aristotle [6], who raised him (Plut. Alexander 55,8) and whom he accompanied to Assos, Macedonia and then perhaps to Athens. After the death of Hermias [1] he wrote in praise of him (quoted by Didymus, In Demosthenem 5-6). Together with Aristotle he composed a list of Pythionikai ( Pythia) and
agonothetai ( Agonothetes) of the Pythian Games for which the two were honoured in Delphi (Syll.3 275). The…
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Magius
(793 words)
Family name of Oscan origin. [I 184]. The family was prominent in Capua (M. [I 3], cf. Cic. Pis. 24) and M.'s [I 5] sons were the first to be admitted to the Senate in the 1st cent. BC. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) I. Republican period [German version] [I 1] Grandfather of the poet Vergilius on his mother's side Grandfather of the poet Vergilius on his mother's side; was allegedly an official messenger (
viator ; Donat. Vita Vergilii 1). Kierdorf, Wilhelm (Cologne) [German version] [I 2] M., Cn. Governor of Numidia AD 256-258. From Larinum in Samnium, died about 88 BC; heir of his (half…
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Iunius
(8,102 words)
Roman surname, derived from the name of the goddess Iuno [1. 470; 2. 731]. The
gens was plebeian; the idea that this family originated from the patrician founder of the Republic L. I. [I 4] Brutus (Cic. Att. 13,40,1), which was particularly propagated by the murderers of Caesar, M. and D. I. Brutus [I 10 and 12], was already a matter of controversy in ancient times (Plut. Brutus 1,6-8). T. Pomponius Atticus (Nep. Att. 18,3) composed a family history at the request of M. Brutus. This gens became politically im…
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Maenius
(930 words)
Name of a Roman plebeian family, perhaps of Etruscan origin [1. 185; 187]. The most important bearer of the name is M. [I 3]; the family is politically unimportant in the 1st cent. BC.
Lex Maenia is the title of a Menippean satire of Varro (Varro Men. 153-155). The law concerned the power of the paternal head of the house; content and dating are contested [3. 1085 - 1121]. A further
lex Maenia probably passed before 290 BC directed that the ‘agreement of the Senate’ (
auctoritas patrum) for elections be obtained before proclaiming the election results (Cic. Brut. 55). Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Boch…
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