Arruntia gens

The gens Arruntia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens first came to prominence during the final years of the Republic.[1]

Origin

The nomen Arruntius is a patronymic surname, based on the Etruscan praenomen Arruns, which must have been borne by the ancestor of the gens.[2]

Praenomina

The chief praenomina of the Arruntii were Lucius and Marcus. Besides these, there are only a few examples of other names used by members of this gens, including Gaius and Quintus.

Branches and cognomina

The historian Ronald Syme identified three distinct families of the Arruntii: the first descended from the admiral Lucius Arruntius, and ended with Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus; another originated at Patavium; the third came from Lycia, whence they were descended from a certain Arruntius who settled in the east during the early years of the Roman Empire.[3]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Footnotes

  1. Scribonianus was the natural son of Marcus Furius Camillus, consul in AD 8, but was adopted by Lucius Arruntius, the consul of AD 6. He frequently appears under variations of his birth name, Marcus Furius Camillus Scribonianus.
  2. Writing in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology in 1849, Professor William A. Greenhill, M.D., of Trinity College, Oxford, described this sum as the equivalent of about £1,953 2/6, or £182,700 in 2017.
  3. Like his father, he is sometimes referred to as Marcus Furius Camillus Scribonianus.

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 353 ("Arruntius").
  2. Chase, pp. 129, 135.
  3. Syme, "Eight Consuls from Patavium", p. 115.
  4. Appian, Bellum Civile, iv. 21.
  5. Appian, Bellum Civile, iv. 46.
  6. Velleius Paterculus, ii. 77, 85.
  7. Cassius Dio, liv. 1.
  8. PIR, vol. I, pp. 143, 144.
  9. CIL XI, 4179.
  10. PIR, vol. I, p. 143.
  11. Tacitus, Annales, i. 8, 13, 76, 79, vi. 5, 7, 27, 47, 48, Historiae, ii. 65.
  12. Cassius Dio, lv. 25, lviii. 27.
  13. PIR, vol. I, p. 144.
  14. Tacitus, Annales, vi. 1, xii. 52, Historiae, i. 89, ii. 75.
  15. Suetonius, "The Life of Claudius", 13.
  16. PIR, vol. I, pp. 145, 146.
  17. Josephus, Antiquitates Judaïcae, xix. 1. § 14.
  18. Josephus, Antiquitates Judaïcae, xix. i. § 18.
  19. Pliny the Elder, xxix. 5.
  20. Tacitus, Annales, xii. 52, Historiae, ii. 75.
  21. PIR, vol. I, pp. 146, 147.
  22. PIR, vol. I, p. 147.
  23. Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, vi. 38.
  24. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales xiii. 22.
  25. Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Nero", p. 292.
  26. CIL III, 6737.
  27. PIR, vol. I, pp. 144, 145.
  28. Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", p. 202.
  29. PIR, vol. I, p. 145.
  30. CIL II, 2477.
  31. PIR, vol. I, p. 146.
  32. CIL VI, 1842.
  33. Habicht, pp. 1–4.
  34. Statius, Silvae, i. 2.
  35. Martial, vi. 21.
  36. CIL IX, 2565.
  37. Digesta, 48 tit. 19 s. 27.
  38. Schuermans, p. 86.
  39. Porphyrius, "The Life of Plotinus", 7.
  40. Schopen, De Terentio et Donato.

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