Erucia (gens)

The gens Erucia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned early in the first century BC; the name has been claimed as Etruscan.[1] However, in the second century of the Empire, the Erucii attained considerable distinction.[2]

Praenomina used

The praenomina associated with the Erucii are Gaius, Marcus, and Sextus.[2]

Branches and cognomina

The only family of the Erucii known to history bore the cognomen Clarus.[2]

Members

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

See also

References

  1. Ronald Syme, "Pliny's Less Successful Friends", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 9 (1960), p. 374
  2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  3. Plutarchus, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Sulla 16, 18.
  4. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Sexto Roscio 13, 16, 18-21, 29, 32, Fragm. pro Vareno 8, p. 443, ed. Orelli.
  5. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae i. 1, 15, ii. 9, vii. 28, viii. 1.
  6. Aelius Spartianus, Hadrian 9, 11, 15.
  7. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae ii. 9.
  8. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History lxviii. 30.
  9. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae i. 15, ii. 9.
  10. Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae vi. 6, xiii. 17.
  11. Aelius Spartianus, Septimius Severus 1.
  12. Digesta seu Pandectae 1. tit. 15. s. 3. § 2.
  13. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History lxvii. 22, lxxiv. 9.
  14. Julius Capitolinus, Pertinax 15.
  15. Aelius Spartianus, Septimius Severus 13.

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