Ancient Roman family
Thegens Flaminia was aplebeian family atancient Rome. During the first five centuries of Rome, no mention is made of any member of the Flaminiagens. In former times the Flaminii were believed to be only a family of theQuinctia gens; but this opinion arose from a confusion of the Flaminii with the Flaminini, the latter of whom belonged to the ancient patrician Quinctia gens.[1]
The nameFlaminius is evidently a derivative offlamen, and seems to have originally denoted a servant of a flamen.[2][1]
The mainpraenomina used by the Flaminii wereGaius andLucius. At least one of the Flaminii bore the praenomenTitus, but he may have been afreedman, and thus it is not apparent whether this name was regularly used by the Flaminii.[1]
Branches and cognomina
[edit]The only family names of the Flaminia gens that we know areChilo andFlamma. There is no evidence for thecognomenNepos, whichOrelli gives to the Flaminius who fell in battle atLake Trasimene.[1][3]
Chilo, orCilo, as the name seems to have been written in either way on coins of the Flaminia gens, is found as a surname in a number of Roman families. The Latin grammarians, however, state thatCilo was applied to a person with a long and narrow head, andChilo to one with large or thick lips.[4][5][6][7][8]
- This list includes abbreviatedpraenomina. For an explanation of this practice, seefiliation.
- Lucius Flaminius, grandfather of the consul of 223 and 217 BC.
- Gaius Flaminius L. f., father of the consul of 223 and 217 BC.
- Gaius Flaminius C. f. L. n.,consul in 223 and 217 BC,magister equitum in 221, andcensor in 220. In his first consulship, he triumphed over theInsubres. In his second, he fell in battle againstHannibal atLake Trasimene.
- Gaius Flaminius C. f. C. n., served underScipio Africanus inHispania during theSecond Punic War. He was consul in 187 BC, and defeated the Triniates and theApuani.
- Gaius Flaminius,praetor in BC 66, together withCicero. Some years before, Flaminius had been curuleaedile, and Cicero had defended Decimus Matrinius before his tribunal.[9]
- Gaius Flaminius, a man ofArretium, whither he had probably gone with the colonists whomSulla had established there. He is mentioned as one of the accomplices ofCatiline. In one manuscript ofSallustius he bears the cognomenFlamma.[10]
- Titus Flaminius Flamma, possibly afreedman of the Flaminia gens, was a debtor of Lucius Tullius Montanus, whose brother-in-law wrote to Cicero to beg indulgence or delay in repayment of the debt. Cicero frequently requestedAtticus to bring Flamma to a settlement; and writing to his own freedman,Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero hints at stronger measures, and his desire to have part of the debt paid by the first of January, BC 44.[11]
- Lucius Flaminius Chilo or Cilo, appears only on coins of the Flaminia gens. An inscription on the obverse may indicate that Chilo was one of thequattuorviri monetales, appointed byCaesar in place of the earliertriumviri monetales.[12]
- ^abcdDictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,William Smith, Editor.
- ^Paulus Diaconus, epitome ofFestus,De Significatu Verborum (epitome ofMarcus Verrius Flaccus)s. vv. Flaminius Camillus, Flaminius Lictor.
- ^Johann Caspar von Orelli,Onomasticon Tullianum ii. p. 254.
- ^Joseph Hilarius Eckhel,Doctrina Numorum Veterum v. p. 212.
- ^Velius Long. p. 2234.
- ^Flav. Caper, p. 2242.
- ^Charis. p. 78, ed. Putschius.
- ^Sextus Pompeius Festus, epitome ofMarcus Verrius Flaccus,De Verborum Significatus. v. Chilo.
- ^Marcus Tullius Cicero,Pro Cluentio 45, 53.
- ^Gaius Sallustius Crispus,The Conspiracy of Catiline 28, 36.
- ^Marcus Tullius Cicero,Epistulae ad Atticum xii. 52, xiv. 16, 17, xv. 2.
- ^Joseph Hilarius Eckhel,Doctrina Numorum Veterum v. pp. 212, 213.
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