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Rufillus
(44 words)
[German version] Fictitious Roman cognomen, affectionate form of Rufinus (as in Hor. Sat. 1,2,26 f.; cf. 1,4,92 for an overbred dandy). Rufilla was the name of an alleged lover of Octavianus (Augustus) (Suet. Aug. 69,2).…
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Trebonius
(601 words)
Name of a Roman plebeian family, documented with certainty only from the 1st cent. BC on (T. [I 2] might be unhistorical). Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) I. Republican Period [German version] [I 1] T., C. Son of an ill-reputed (Cic. Phil. 13,23; the same as in Hor. Sat. 1,4,114?) Roman equestrian. In 58 BC [1], T. worked as
quaestor urbanus against P. Clodius' [I 4] switch to the
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Pansa
(78 words)
[German version] Roman cognomen; according to ancient tradition a reference to a ‘
flatfoot’ (Plaut. Merc. 640; Plin. HN 11,254; Quint. Inst. 1,4,25); very common in the Imperial period. Its most famous bearer was C. Vibius Pansa (
cos. in 43 BC); the addressee of Cato's [1] speech
In Pans…
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Octavianus
(409 words)
Roman
cognomen, indicating adoption by the
gens Octavia (Octavius), in the Imperial period also a family name. [German version] …
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Priscus
(884 words)
Common Roman
cognomen ('venerable')
. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [1] Greek grammarian (Πρεῖσκος/
Preîskos). The 3rd cent. AD PTurner 39 (PIenensis inv. 267), a book catalogue from a private library, presents at line 4 'a commentary on epic verses by P.' [2], who is identified as one of the two
Prisci mentioned in Ov. Pont. 4,16,10 (
Priscus uter); he may be identical to Clutorius Priscus, the Roman equestrian and poet mentioned in Tac. Ann. 3,49 and Cass. Dio 57,20,3-4. Fornaro, Sotera (Sassari) Bibliography
1 SH 710 A
2 R. Otranto, Antiche liste di libri su papiro, 2000, 73-77 (with bibliogr.). …
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Chrysogonus
(69 words)
[German version] Influential freedman of Sulla (therefore his full name L. Cornelius C.), who enriched himself significantly during the Proscriptions. He had Sex. Roscius retroactively placed on the Proscription list for the purpose of acquiring his property for little money. According to Cicero that is why he backed the patricide trial of the victim's son, Sex. Roscius in 80 BC (Cic. Rosc. Am.
passim). Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum)
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Equitius
(272 words)
Relatively rare Roman family name (for derivation: Varro, Rust. 2,1,10). [German version] [1] E., L. Represented himself as son of Ti. Sempronius Gracchus Adventurer of uncertain origins, who in 102 BC represented himself as the son of the people's tribune Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, killed in 133. He was acknowledged neither by the censor, Q. Caecilius [I 30] Metellus Numidicus, nor by the sister of Gracchus. As a follower of L. Ap(p)uleius [I 11] Saturninus, in 100 he stood for the post of people's tribune for 99, but was himself killed during the unrest that led to the death of Appuleius. E…
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Licinius
(11,186 words)
Name of probably the most important Roman plebeian family. The similarity to the Etruscan name
lecne and the links between the
gens and Etruria in historical times (L. [I 7]) suggest an origin in that region [1. 108, n. 3]; the name may, however, also be of Latin origin ( Licinus). The spelling with a double ‘n’ occurs not only in the Greek form Λικίννιος (
Likínnios), but also in Latin inscriptions [1. 108, n. 1]. In the annalistic historical records dealing with the early Republic, members of the family appe…
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Rebilus
(23 words)
[German version] Roman cognomen occurring in the Caninii family (Caninius [3-5]) until the Imperial period. …
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Geganius
(141 words)
Name of a Roman patrician family, which according to tradition was politically significant in Rome during the 5th cent. BC, but then entirely disappeared. The
gens supposedly came to Rome from Alba Longa under king Tullus Hostilius (Liv. 1,30,2; Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 3,29,7); a later construction traced the family back to Gyas, a companion of Aeneas (Serv. Aen. 5,117). [German version] [1] G. Macerinus, M. Cos III, censor 435 BC Consul I in 447 BC, II in 443 (triumph over the Volsci, InscrIt 13,1,67; Liv. 4,9f.), III in 437, censor in 435 with C. Furius [I 25] Pacilus; legate in 431.…
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Curius
(291 words)
Plebian gentes name, attested from the beginning of the 3rd cent. BC onwards (ThlL, Onom. 2, 760-762). [German version] [1] Procos. between 47 and 45 BC Otherwise unknown proconsul between 47 and 45 BC (contact of Cic. Fam. 13,49). Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [2] C., M. People's tribune 198 BC People's tribune in 198 BC, objected to the election of T. Quinctius Flamininus as consul (Liv. 32,7,8). Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [3] C., Q. Catalinarian, betrayed the conspiracy in 63 BC In 70 BC, as a former quaestor (?), he was expelled from the Senate (MRR 2,127); later he was a follower of Catilina, and in 63 through his lover Fulvia he betrayed the conspiracy to Cicero (Sall. Catil. 23,2ff.; 26,3; 28,2; Suet. Iul. 17). Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [4] C. Dentatus, M' Cos. 290 BC From a previously undistinguished family (cognomen because he was supposedly born with teeth, Plin. HN 7,68), consul in 290 BC, 284 (
suff.), 275, 274. In the 1st Consulate he defeated the Sabines (given half-citizenship) and ended the 3rd Samnite War (dual triumph, MRR 1,183f.). In 283 he vanquished the Senones in Upper Italy where the colony of Sena Gallica was then established (Pol. 2,19,9-12). In 275 he was victorious over Pyrrhus (MRR 1,195); his triumphal march included elephants for the first time (Flor. Epit. 1,13,28). As censor in 272 he commenced construct…
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Fonteius
(1,213 words)
Name of a Roman Plebeian family from Tusculum (who, as mint masters, liked to place on their coins the Dioscuri, who were particularly revered there, RRC 290, 307, cf. 353), whose members often held the office of praetor; the family did not attain the consulate until the early Imperial period.…
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Atticus
(504 words)
[German version] [1] Platonic philosopher, c. AD 176 (Ἀττικος;
Áttikos) Platonic philosopher, mentioned in the chronicle of Eusebios in AD 176 [1. 16, 148], teacher of Harpocration of Argus, author of commentary on Plato's
Timaeus [1. 50, 215f.],
Phaedon (?) [1. 30, 190f.] and
Phaedrus (?) [1. 42, 197]; the fragments 40-42 Des Places, fr. 40-42 Des Places, which could refer to a commentary on the ‘
Categories of Aristotle [1. 248, 258f.], come from the tract ‘against those …
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Musca
(21 words)
[German version] Roman cognomen (‘Fly’) in the family of the Sempronii. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) Bibliography Kajanto, Cognomina 24; 85; 333.
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Sulpicius
(5,409 words)
Name of a Roman patrician family, probably originally from Cameria (hence the cognomen
Camerinus); documented in the
fasti from
c. 500 BC. The othe…
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Tullius
(3,490 words)
Roman family name derived from the
praenomen Tullus; oldest traditional bearer of the name is the sixth king of Rome, Servius T. [I 4]; until the time of Cicero and his family, other bearers are only rarely recorded. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) I. Republican period [German version] [I 1] T., Attius As 'by far the first man of the Volsci at the time' (Liv. 2,35,7), tradition connected him wit…
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