Acutia (gens)
The gens Acutia was a plebeian family at Rome, from the early Republic to imperial times. The first member of this gens to achieve prominence was Marcus Acutius, tribune of the plebs in 401 B.C.[1][2]
Praenomina
The Acutii are known to have used the praenomina Marcus and Quintus.[3][4]
Branches and cognomina
The earliest Acutii are found without a cognomen. In the first century AD, the surname Nerva is found.[5][6]
Members
- Marcus Acutius, tribune of the plebs in 401 BC, was elected by the other tribunes (by co-optation) in violation of the lex Trebonia.[7]
- Acutia, wife of Publius Vitellius, whose nephew Aulus Vitellius became emperor in AD 69.[8]
- Quintus Acutius Nerva, suffect consul in AD 100.[9][10]
See also
References
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, v. 10.
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
- ↑ Fasti Capitolini.
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
- ↑ Fasti Capitolini.
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, v. 10.
- ↑ Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, vi. 47.
- ↑ Fasti Capitolini.
- ↑ Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae, ii. 12.
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