Caecina gens

Caecina was the name of an Etruscan family of Volaterrae, one of the ancient cities of Etruria. Persons of this gens are first mentioned in the first century BC. Under the Empire the name is of frequent occurrence. As late as the reign of Honorius, we read of the poet Decius Albinus Caecina, residing at his villa in the neighborhood of Volaterrae; and until modern times there has been a family of this name at the modern Volterra. The family tomb of the Caecinae has been discovered in the neighborhood of Volterra; in this tomb there was found a beautiful sarcophagus, now in the Museum of Paris.[1]

Origin

The family seems either to have derived its name from, or given it to, the river Caecina, which flows by the town of Volaterrae. From the tomb of the Caecinae, we learn that Ceicna was the Etruscan form of the name.[1]

Branches and cognomina

The family was divided into several branches, and we accordingly find on the funeral urns the cognomina Caspu and Tlapuni; in Latin inscriptions we also meet with the surnames Quadratus and Placidus, and various others occur.[1]

Members

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

Caecinae Decii

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 529 ("Caecina").
  2. Cicero, Pro Caecina.
  3. Suetonius, "The Life of Caesar", 75.
  4. Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, vi. 5–9, xiii. 66.
  5. Hirtius, De Bello Africo, 89.
  6. Seneca the Younger, Quaestiones Naturalis, ii. 39, 56.
  7. Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, xvi. 8, Epistulae ad Familiares, vi. 5.
  8. Appian, Bellum Civile, v. 60.
  9. Tacitus, Annales, i. 31, 32, 56, 60, 63–68, 72, iii. 18, 33, 34.
  10. Cassius Dio, lv. 29, 30, 32.
  11. Velleius Paterculus, ii. 112.
  12. Fasti Magistrorum Vici, CIL VI, 10286, 10287.
  13. Fasti Arvalium, AE 1987, 163; 1991, 306; 1991, 307.
  14. Fasti Antiates, CIL X, 6638, CIL X, 6639.
  15. Gordon and Gordon, "Roman Names and the Consuls of A. D. 13".
  16. Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, iii. 16.
  17. Cassius Dio, lx. 16.
  18. Martial, Epigrammata, i. 14.
  19. Zonaras, xi. 9.
  20. Cassius Dio, lx. 10
  21. Asconius Pedianus, In Ciceronis Pro Scauro, p. 27 (ed. Orelli).
  22. Pliny the Elder, xvii. 1.
  23. Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", pp. 407, 408, 412, 424.
  24. Tacitus, Annales, xi. 33, 34.
  25. Fasti Ostienses, CIL XIV, 244.
  26. Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", pp. 411, 423, 425.
  27. Tacitus, Annales, xiii. 20, Historiae, iii. 38.
  28. Suetonius, "The Life of Nero", 35.
  29. Cassius Dio, lxiii. 18.
  30. Tacitus, Historiae, i. 52, 53, 61, 67–70, ii. 20–25, 30, 41–44, 71, 99, 100, iii. 13, 14, 31.
  31. Cassius Dio, lxv. 10, 14, lxvi. 16.
  32. Josephus, Bellum Judaïcum, iv. 11. § 3.
  33. Suetonius, "The Life of Titus", 6.
  34. Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus, 10.
  35. Tacitus, Historiae, ii. 53.
  36. Pliny the Elder, xx. 18. s. 76.
  37. CIL VI, 200, AE 1908, 86.
  38. Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", pp. 187, 213.
  39. Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", p. 304.
  40. Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature, pp. 115 ff.
  41. PLRE, vol. I, p. 511.

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