Cluvia (gens)

The gens Cluvia was a Roman family during the later Republic, and early imperial times. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Cluvius Saxula, praetor in 175 and 173 BC.[1]

Origin of the gens

The Cluvii were of Campanian origin. The earliest member of the family appearing in history was Faucula Cluvia, a courtesan at Capua during the Second Punic War.[2][3]

Praenomina used by the gens

The praenomina used by the Cluvii included Gaius, Spurius, and Marcus.[4]

Branches and cognomina of the gens

The Cluvii do not appear to have been divided into distinct families. Individual members of the gens bore the personal cognomina Saxula, a little rock, and Rufus, red or reddish.[5][6]

Members of the gens

See also

Footnotes

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  2. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xxvi. 33, 34.
  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. D.P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin & English Dictionary (1963).
  6. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  7. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xxvi. 33, 34.
  8. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xli. 22, 33, xlii. 1.
  9. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xlii. 9, 10.
  10. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xliv. 40.
  11. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo, xiv. 14-16.
  12. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, vi. 2, xiii. 46, xiv. 9, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 56.
  13. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History, lii. 42.
  14. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 7.
  15. Johann Caspar von Orelli, Inscriptionum Latinarum Selectarum Collectio n. 4859.
  16. Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, ii. 1.
  17. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum, Nero, 21.
  18. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History, lxiii. 14.
  19. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, xiii. 20, xiv. 2, Historiae, i. 18, ii. 65, iv. 43.
  20. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae, ix. 19. § 5.

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