Arruntia gens
The gens Arruntia was a plebeian family at Rome, which came to prominence during the first century BC.[1]
Origin
The nomen Arruntius is a patronymic surname, based on the Etruscan praenomen Arruns, which must have been borne by the ancestor of the gens.
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Arruntius, proscribed by the triumvirs and killed in 43 BC.[2]
- Arruntius, son of the Arruntius killed by the triumvirs, escaped, but perished at sea.[2]
- Lucius Arruntius, consul in 22 BC, formerly proscribed by the triumvirs, but later restored to the state.
- Lucius Arruntius L. f., consul in AD 6, praised by Augustus, but viewed with suspicion by Tiberius.
- Arruntius, a physician at Rome, mentioned by Gaius Plinius.[3]
- Arruntius Stella, the person to whom Nero entrusted the superintendence of the games which he exhibited in AD 55.[4]
- Arruntius Stella, a poet and friend of Publius Papinius Statius.[5][6]
- Arruntius Celsus, a commentator on Publius Terentius Afer, who probably lived in the second half of the fourth century.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ a b Appianus, Bellum Civile iv. 21.
- ^ Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia xxix. 5.
- ^ Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales xiii. 22.
- ^ Publius Papinius Statius, Silvae
- ^ Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams vi. 21.
- ^ Schopen, De Terentio et Donato (1821).
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