Caedicia (gens)

The gens Caedicia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens first came to prominence in the early decades of the Republic, but the first who obtained the consulship was Quintus Caedicius Noctua in 289 BC. The family faded from public life during the later Republic, but one of the Caedicii was known to Juvenal, who lived toward the close of the 1st century.^[1][2]

Praenomina used by the gens

The Caedicii used the common praenomina Lucius, Gaius, Marcus, and Quintus.^[3]

Branches and cognomina of the gens

The only cognomen occurring in this gens is Noctua. It seems to have been a personal cognomen, as it was not borne by later Caedicii. Other members of the gens bore no surname.^[4]

Members of the gens

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

• Lucius Caedicius, tribune of the plebs in 475 BC, brought to trial Spurius Servilius Priscus Structus, the consul of the preceding year.^[5][6]
• Marcus Caedicius, a commander of the Roman army after the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BC, requested the assistance of Marcus Furius Camillus.^[7][8]
• Gaius Caedicius, one of the legates of the consul Lucius Papirius Cursor, commanded the cavalry in the great battle with the Samnites in 293 BC.^[9]
• Quintus Caedicius, father of the consul of 289 BC.
• Quintus Caedicius Q. f. Noctua, consul in 289 and censor in 283 BC.^[10][11]
• Quintus Caedicius Q. f. Q. n., consul in 256 BC, died in his year of office, and was succeeded by Marcus Atilius Regulus.^[12]

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satires, xiii. 197, xvi. 46.
3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
5. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, ii. 52.
6. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia, ix. 28.
7. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, v. 45, 46.
8. Appianus, Celtica, 5.
9. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, x. 40.
10. Fasti Capitolini.
11. T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1952).
12. Fasti Capitolini.

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