Atinia (gens)

The gens Atinia was a plebeian family at Rome. None of the members of this gens ever attained the consulship; and the first who held any of the higher offices of the state was Gaius Atinius Labeo, who was praetor in 195 BC.^[1]

Branches and cognomina

The only major family of this gens bore the cognomen Labeo.^[2]

Members

• Titus Atinius, who in 491 BC had a number of divine visions of calamity lest Rome celebrate the Great Games on a grand scale, which he convinced to senate to do. ^[3]
• Gaius Atinius Labeo, tribune of the plebs in 196, and praetor peregrinus in 195 BC.
• Marcus Atinius, praefectus socium, killed while serving in Gaul under the consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus, in 194 BC.^[4]
• Gaius Atinius Labeo, praetor in 190 BC, received Sicilia as his province.^[5]
• Gaius Atinius (Labeo), praetor in 188 BC, received Hispania Ulterior as his province.

See also

List of Roman gentes

Footnotes

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
3. Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2:36
4. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita xxxiv. 47.
5. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita xxxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2.

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