Ancient Roman plebeian family
Thegens Aurunculeia was aplebeian family atRome. None of the members of thisgens ever obtained theconsulship; the first who obtained thepraetorship was Gaius Aurunculeius, in 209 BC.[1]
Thenomen Aurunculeius is probably derived from the name of theAurunci, a race of people from ruralCampania, conquered by the Romans in 314 BC, during theSecond Samnite War. The Aurunculei may have been of Auruncan origin, or perhaps less probably, descendants of the colonists sent to the towns of the Aurunci beginning in 313.[2][3]
Branches and cognomina
[edit]The onlycognomen associated with the Aurunculeii isCotta.[4]
- Gaius Aurunculeius,praetor in 209 BC, during theSecond Punic War, had the province ofSardinia.[5]
- Gaius Aurunculeius,tribunus militum for the third legion in 207 BC.[6]
- Lucius Aurunculeius, praetorurbanus in 190 BC, and one of ten commissioners sent to arrange the affairs ofAsia at the conclusion of the war withAntiochus the Great, in 188.[7]
- Gaius Aurunculeius, one of three ambassadors sent into Asia in 155 BC, to preventPrusias II of Bithynia from making war uponAttalus.[8]
- Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta, one ofCaesar'slegates inGaul, slain in battle withAmbiorix in 54 BC.
- ^Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,William Smith, Editor.
- ^Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita ix. 25, 26
- ^Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1970).
- ^Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,William Smith, Editor.
- ^Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita, xxvii. 6, 7.
- ^Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita, xxvii. 41.
- ^Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita, xxxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2, 55.
- ^Polybius,The Histories, xxxiii. 1.
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