Atinia gens
The gens Atinia was a plebeian family at Rome. None of the members of this gens ever attained the consulship; and the first who held any of the higher offices of the state was Gaius Atinius Labeo, who was praetor in 195 BC.[1]
Branches and cognomina
The only major family of this gens bore the cognomen Labeo.[2]
Members
- Titus Atinius, who in 491 BC had a number of divine visions of calamity lest Rome celebrate the Great Games on a grand scale, which he convinced to senate to do. [3]
- Gaius Atinius Labeo, tribune of the plebs in 196, and praetor peregrinus in 195 BC.
- Marcus Atinius, praefectus socium, killed while serving in Gaul under the consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus, in 194 BC.[4]
- Gaius Atinius Labeo, praetor in 190 BC, received Sicilia as his province.[5]
- Gaius Atinius (Labeo), praetor in 188 BC, received Hispania Ulterior as his province.
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2:36
- ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita xxxiv. 47.
- ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita xxxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2.
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