Bruttia gens
The gens Bruttia was an ancient Roman family during the late Republic and into imperial times. None of the gens obtained any important magistracies until the latter half of the first century AD, when Lucius Bruttius Maximus was proconsul in Cyprus.
Origin
The Lucani, from whom they asserted their independence during the fourth century BC. The name of Bruttii, which they adopted for themselves, may be a pre-Sabellic name meaning "runaways".[1][2][3][4]
Praenomina
The praenomina used by the Bruttii are Lucius, Gaius, and Quintus.
Branches and cognomina
No distinct families of the Bruttii appear under the Republic, during which the only
Quinctii Crispini.[5]
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Quintus Bruttius Sura, legate of Gaius Sentius Saturninus, governor of Macedonia in 88 BC.
- Bruttius, an eques, for whom Cicero wrote a letter of introduction to Manius Acilius Caninus, proconsul in Sicilia in 46 BC.[7]
- Bruttius, a philologer, with whom the younger Marcus Tullius Cicero studied at Athens in 44 BC.[8]
- Quintus Bruttius Balbus, a candidate for duumvir at Pompeii, mentioned in a political graffito.[9]
- Lucius Bruttius Maximus, proconsul of Cyprus in AD 80.
- Gaius Bruttius L. f. Praesens Lucius Fulvius Rusticus, consul in AD 139.
- Lucius Fulvius Gaius Bruttius C. f. L. n. Praesens Laberius Maximus, consul in AD 153 and 180.
- Bruttia C. f. C. n. Crispina, Roman empress, the wife of Commodus.
- Lucius Bruttius C. f. C. n. Quinctius Crispinus, consul in AD 187.
- Gaius Bruttius Praesens, consul in AD 217.[10]
- Lucius Bruttius Quintius Crispinus, consul in AD 224, and afterwards persuaded the city of Aquileia to resist Maximinus Thrax.
- Gaius Bruttius Praesens, consul in AD 246.[5]
- Bruttius or "Brittius" Praesens, corrector of Lucania and Bruttium, and a pontifex major, around the early fourth century.[11][12]
See also
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)- Jones, A. H. M.; Martindale, J. R.; Morris, John, eds. (1971–1992). Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (3 volumes). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (see PLRE)
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, xvi. 15.
- ^ Strabo, Geographica, vi. 253 ff.
- ^ Marcus Junianus Justinus, Historiarum Philippicarum libri XLIV, xxiii. 1.
- ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1970).
- ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Attilio Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae, Turin (1963), pp. 92, 93 (No. 608).
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 38.
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xvi. 21.
- ^ Walls of Pompeii Archived May 7, 2003, at the Wayback Machine
- Fasti consulares.
- ^ CIL VI, 2153, CIL X, 468.
- ^ PLRE, vol. I, p. 721.