Arruntia (gens)

The gens Arruntia was a plebeian family at Rome, which came to prominence during the first century BC.^[1]

Origin

The nomen Arruntius is a patronymic surname, based on the Etruscan praenomen Arruns, which must have been borne by the ancestor of the gens.

Members

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

• Arruntius, proscribed by the triumvirs and killed in 43 BC.^[2]
• Arruntius, son of the Arruntius killed by the triumvirs, escaped, but perished at sea.^[2]
• Lucius Arruntius, consul in 22 BC, formerly proscribed by the triumvirs, but later restored to the state.
• Lucius Arruntius L. f., consul in AD 6, praised by Augustus, but viewed with suspicion by Tiberius.
• Arruntius, a physician at Rome, mentioned by Gaius Plinius.^[3]
• Arruntius Stella, the person to whom Nero entrusted the superintendence of the games which he exhibited in AD 55.^[4]
• Arruntius Stella, a poet and friend of Publius Papinius Statius.^[5][6]
• Arruntius Celsus, a commentator on Publius Terentius Afer, who probably lived in the second half of the fourth century.^[7]

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Appianus, Bellum Civile iv. 21.
3. Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia xxix. 5.
4. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales xiii. 22.
5. Publius Papinius Statius, Silvae
6. Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams vi. 21.
7. Schopen, De Terentio et Donato (1821).

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.