Author(s):
Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum)
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Fündling, Jörg (Bonn)
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Nadig, Peter C. (Duisburg)
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Müller, Christian (Bochum)
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Eck, Werner (Cologne)
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Et al.
Italian surname (on its Etruscan connection cf. [1. 182f.]). In the 5th and 4th cents. BC we encounter the patrician family of the Lucretii Tricipitini (among others with the rare
praenomen Hostus) which later died out; from the 3rd cent. BC onwards several plebeian families are known (Gallus, Ofella, Trio, Vespillo). The most important bearers of the name are Lucretia [2] from early Roman history and the poet L. [III 1]. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) I. Republican period [German version] [I 1] L. Prosecutor of M. Livius Drusus [I 5] Claudianus In 54 BC he prosecuted M. Livius Drusus [I 5] Claudianus together with others (Cic. Att. 4,16,5). Possibly identical to L. [II 5]. Fündling, Jörg (Bonn) [German version] [I 2] L., M. People's tribune 172 BC Brother of L. [I 8]. As people's tribune in 172 BC, he obtained the lease of the Ager Campanus (MRR 1, 411). In 171 legate under his brother in the 3rd Macedonian War. Nadig, Peter C. (Duisburg) [German version] [I 3] L., P. Consul 506 BC The manuscript tradition of Livy 2,15,1 lists L. with various variants of the name as
cos. in 506 BC. Presumably confused here with Sp. Larcius [I 2] (InscrIt 13, 1, 348f.; cf. MRR 1, 6f.). Müller, Christian (Bochum) [German version] [I 4] L., Sp. Praetor 205 BC Plebeian aedile in 206 BC. A…