Laelia (gens)

The gens Laelia was a plebeian family at Rome. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Laelius in 190 BC.[1]

Branches and cognomina

The only family name of the Laelii was Balbus, a common cognomen, referring to one who stammers. A few of the Laelii used personal surnames, such as Sapiens ("wise"), by which the Laelius who was a friend of the younger Scipio Africanus was sometimes known.[1][2][3]

Members

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

Footnotes

  1. Lauro was just north of Baetulo, modern Badalona.

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 704 ("Laelia Gens").
  2. Chase, p. 110.
  3. The New College Latin & English Dictionary, "sapiens".
  4. Polybius, x. 3, 9, 18, 19, 37, 39, xi. 24, 32, 33, xiv. 4, 9, xv. 9, 12, 14.
  5. Velleius Paterculus, ii. 127.
  6. Livy, xxvi. 42, 48, 51, xxvii. 7, 18, xxviii. 17–19, 20, 23, 30, 33, 38, xxix. 1, 4, 6, 24–27, xxx. 3–6, 9, 11–17, 22, 25, 33–35, 40, xxxiii. 24, 26, xxxv. 10, xxvi. 45, xxxvii. 1, 47, 50, xli. 22.
  7. Appian, Hispanica, 20, 25, 26, 29; Punica, 26–28, 41, 44.
  8. Cicero, Philippicae, xi. 7.
  9. Zonaras, ix. 13.
  10. Frontinus, Strategemata, i. 1. § 3, i. 2. §. 1, ii. 3. § 16.
  11. Velleius Paterculus, ii. 127.
  12. Valerius Maximus, iv. 7. § 7.
  13. Cicero, Laelius sive de Amicitia, 8, 11, 25; Brutus, 21, 22, 24, 43; Tusculanae Quaestiones, iv. 3, v. 19; De Officiis, i. 26, 30, ii. 11; De Finibus, ii. 8; Epistulae ad Atticum, vii. 3; Philippicae, ii. 33, De Natura Deorum, iii. 2, 17; De Oratore, ii. 6, 7, iii. 7. § 28; De Republica, i. 39; vi. 2; Topica, 20. § 78.
  14. Plutarch, Regum et Imperatorium Apophthegmata, p. 200; "The Life of Tiberius Gracchus", 8.
  15. Suetonius, "The Life of Terentius", 2.
  16. Horace, Satirae, ii. 1, 65–74.
  17. Livy, Epitome, lix.
  18. Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 11, 104; Naturales Quaestiones, vi. 32.
  19. Aulus Gellius, vii. 14.
  20. Cicero, Brutus, 58. § 111, De Oratore, iii. 12. § 44.
  21. Cicero, Brutus, 26. § 101.
  22. Scholia Bobiensa, Pro Flacco, p. 235 (ed. Orelli).
  23. Frontinus, Strategemata, ii. 5. § 31.
  24. Obsequens, 119.
  25. Cicero, De Oratore, ii. 6.
  26. Cicero, Pro Flacco, 1. 6; Epistulae ad Atticum, 11, n. 12. A., xi. 7, 14.
  27. Scholia Bobiensa, Pro Flacco, p. 228 (ed. Orelli).
  28. Caesar, The Civil War, iii. 5, 40, 100.
  29. Fasti Capitolini.
  30. Cassius Dio, lv. 9.
  31. Tacitus, Annales, vi. 47, 48.
  32. Fasti Teanenses, AE 1905, 192; 1909, 78; 1939, 172; 2008, 385.
  33. Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", pp. 408, 414, 425.
  34. Tacitus, Annales, xv. 22.
  35. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 143 ("Laelius Felix").

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