Lollia (gens)

The Lollii appear to have been either of Samnite or Sabine origin, for a Samnite of this name is mentioned in the war with Pyrrhus and Marcus Lollius Palicanus, who was tribune of the plebs in 71 BC, is described as a native of Picenum.[1]

The praenomina used by the Lollii included Quintus, Marcus, Lucius and Gnaeus.[1]

The only cognomen of the Lollii in the time of the Republic was Palicanus, but others appear under the Empire.[1]

Coin with Marcus Lollius Palicanus (obverse) and rostra (reverse)

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

• Lollius, a Samnite hostage during the war with Pyrrhus, afterward headed a band of outlaws.[2][3]
• Quintus Lollius, an elderly eques in Sicilia, mistreated during the administration of Verres, from 73 to 71 BC.[4]
• Marcus Lollius Q. f., appeared on behalf of his father at the trial of Verres.[4]
• Quintus Lollius Q. f., murdered while traveling to Sicilia in order to gather evidence against Verres.[4]
• Lucius Lollius, a legate of Gnaeus Pompeius during the Mithridatic War.[5]
• Gnaeus Lollius, triumvir nocturnus, condemned together with his colleagues, for arriving too late to extinguish a fire in the Via Sacra.[6]
• Marcus Lollius Palicanus, tribune of the plebs in 71 BC, was a prominent reformer, and an opponent of tyranny and the abuse of power. He was a supporter of Pompeius, as well as the victims of Verres. He had reached the Praetorship in 69 BC, but was foiled of the consulship by Gaius Piso.[7]
• Lollia, the wife of Aulus Gabinius, and mother of Aulus Gabinius Sisenna. She may have been a daughter of the tribune Palicanus. She was mistress of Caesar.[8]
• Marcus Lollius, father of the consul of 21 BC.
• Marcus Lollius M. f. perhaps with the cognomen Paulinus, was consul in 21 BC, and guardian of Gaius Julius Caesar, one the grandsons of Augustus.[9]
• Lollius M. f. M. n, a Roman soldier who served in Hispania against the Cantabri.[10]
• Marcus Lollius M. f. M. n., perhaps with the cognomen Paulinus, son of the consul of 21 BC.[11]
• Lollius Bassus, a native of Smyrna and the author of ten epigrams in the Greek Anthology, the last of which, on the death of Germanicus, places it about AD 19.[12][13]
• Lollia M. f. M. n. Saturnina, the wife of Decimus Valerius Asiaticus, and a mistress of Caligula.
• Lollia M. f. M. n. Paulina, the wife of Publius Memmius Regulus, and later of Caligula, whom she married in AD 38.
• Quintus Lollius Alcamenes, decurio and duumvir of an unknown municipium.[14]
• Marcus Lollius Paulinus, consul suffectus in AD 93.[1]
• Marcus Lollius Senecio, a probable Numidian landowner and father of Quintus Lollius Urbicus.[15]
• Quintus Lollius Urbicus, appointed governor of Britannia by Antoninus Pius in AD 138.
• Marcus Lollius Alexander, an engraver of gems, and husband of Flavia Sabina, built a sepulchre at Rome for himself and his family.[16]

• List of Roman gentes

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• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia.
• Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium (Memorable Facts and Sayings).
• Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales.
• Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars).
• Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bella Mithridatica (The Mithridatic Wars).
• Joannes Zonaras, Epitome Historiarum (Epitome of History).
• Anthologia Graeca (The Greek Anthology), ed. Tauchnitz.
• Angelo Mai (Angelus Maius), Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio, e Vaticanus Codicibus Edita (New Collection of Ancient Writers, Compiled from the Vatican Collection), Vatican Press, Rome (1825–1838).
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