Curia (gens)

The gens Curia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned at the beginning of the third century BC, when the family was rendered illustrious by Manius Curius Dentatus.[1]

Praenomina used

The praenomen most closely associated with the Curii is Manius. However, other members of the gens bore the names Gaius and Quintus. It is uncertain whether the name Vibius, belonging to Vibius Curius, Caesar's general, was his praenomen, or if he was a member of the gens Vibia.

Branches and cognomina

The only cognomen that occurs in the gens is Dentatus, meaning "toothed." It may originally have referred to someone with large or prominent teeth, but Manius Curius Dentatus is said to have derived his cognomen from the circumstance of having been born with teeth in his mouth.[2][1]

Members

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

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

  1. 1 2 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  2. Gaius Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis, vii. 15.
  3. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xxxii. 7.
  4. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Oratore, i. 39, 56, 57, ii. 6, 32, 54; Brutus 39, 52, 53, 73, 88; Pro Caecina, 18; Topica, 10.
  5. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 49; Post Reditum in Senatu, 8.
  6. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, vii. 23-26, viii. 5, 6, xiii. 7, 17, 50, xvi. 4, 5, 9, 11; Epistulae ad Atticum, vii. 2, 3, xvi. 3.
  7. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae, v. 5, viii. 9.
  8. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Gaio Rabirio Perduellionis Reo, 3; Pro Gaio Rabirio Postumo, 2, 17.
  9. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Gaio Rabirio Postumo, 2, 17.
  10. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Petitione Consulatus, 3; In Toga Candida, p. 426; Epistulae ad Atticum, i. 1.</
  11. Quintus Asconius Pedianus, In Toga Candida, p. 95, ed. Orelli.
  12. Gaius Sallustius Crispus, The Conspiracy of Catiline, 17, 23, 26.
  13. Appianus, Bellum Civile, ii. 3.
  14. Appianus, Bellum Civile, v. 137.
  15. Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili, i. 24.
  16. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, ii. 20, ix. 6.
  17. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria, vi. 3 § 73.
  18. Julius Capitolinus, Maximinus et Balbinus, 4.
  19. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.

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