Ateia (gens)

The gens Ateia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known from a small number of individuals.^[1]

Members

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

• Gaius Ateius Capito, tribune of the plebs in 55 BC, famous for announcing terrible omens upon the departure of Crassus for Syria.
• Gaius Ateius C. f. Capito, one of the most distinguished jurists of the early Empire, and consul suffectus in AD 5.
• Lucius Ateius Praetextatus, surnamed Philologus, a notable grammarian of the first century BC.
• Ateius Sanctus, an incorrect form of T. Aius Sanctus, the orator and a teacher of the emperor Commodus.^[2]

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Anthony Richard Burley, Marcus Aurelius (Routledge, 1966, 1987), p. 197 online and Lives of the Later Caesars (Penguin, 1976), p. 161 online; E.L. Bowie, "The Importance of Sophists," Later Greek Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 59 online.

 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.