Equitia gens

The gens Equitia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, known from only a few individuals.

Members
  • Lucius Equitius, said to have been a runaway slave who gave himself out as a son of Tiberius Gracchus, and was in consequence elected tribune of the plebs for 99 BC. While tribune designate, he took an active part in the designs of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, and was killed with him in 100 BC.[1][2][3][4]
  • Lucius Equitius C. f. Caecilianus Postimus, named in a sepulchral inscription at Caere, dating probably from the late Republic. It has been suggested that his filiation refers to his biological rather than adoptive father, if an adoption, as implied by the name, took place.[5][6]

See also

References
  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  2. Appianus, Bellum Civile i. 32, 33.
  3. Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium libri IX iii. 2. § 18.
  4. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Sestio 47, Pro Gaio Rabirio Postumo 7.
  5. CIL I, 1945
  6. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Two Studies in Roman Nomenclature (1976), pp. 92, 115–116

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