Poetelia gens

The gens Poetelia or Poetilia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned in the time of the Decemvirs, and from thence down to the Second Punic War, they regularly held the chief magistracies of the Roman state. After this, however, they fade into obscurity, and are only occasionally mentioned. The nomen Poetelius is sometimes confused with Petillius, and can be found with either a single or double 'l'.[1][2]

Branches and cognomina

The only distinct family of the Poetelii is Libo, a sprinkler, probably referring to one who pours libations during a sacrifice. Most of this family also bore the surname Visolus. Livy refers to the consul of 360 BC as Gaius Poetelius Balbus, but other sources refer to him as Libo.[1][2][3][4]

Members

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

Footnotes

  1. The Capitoline Fasti are deficient during this period, and so it has been argued that the consul of 346 and 326 should be identified with the dictator of 313, rather than the consul of 360, and that a third consulship attributed to him might have occurred about 333, one of the enigmatic "dictator years".

See also

References

  1. Dionysius, x. 58.
  2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 435 ("Poetelia Gens").
  3. Chase, pp. 111, 112.
  4. Livy, vii. 11.
  5. Livy, iii. 35.
  6. Dionysius, x. 58, xi. 23.
  7. Broughton, vol. I, pp. 46, 47.
  8. Fasti Capitolini, AE 1900, 83; 1904, 114; AE 1927, 101; 1940, 59, 60.
  9. Livy, vii. 11, 12, 27, viii. 28.
  10. Diodorus Siculus, xvi. 9, 72.
  11. Censorinus, De Die Natali, 17.
  12. Broughton, vol. I, p. 120, 122, 131 (and note 1), 146.
  13. Livy, viii. 23, ix. 28.
  14. Diodorus Siculus, xvii. 113.
  15. Niebuhr, History of Rome, vol. iii, p. 155 ff, 293.
  16. Broughton, vol. I, p. 158.
  17. Livy, ix. 24–23.
  18. Diocorus Siculus, xix. 73.
  19. Broughton, vol. I, p. 157.
  20. Livy, xxvii. 4.
  21. Broughton, vol. I, p. 281.
  22. CIL VI, 2504.
  23. CIL VI, 10200.

Bibliography

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