Caedicia gens
The gens Caedicia was a
Origin
The nomen Caedicius belongs to a class of gentilicia derived from cognomina ending in -ex or -icus. Here the root seems to be a surname, Caedicus, the meaning of which is uncertain.[3]
Praenomina
The Caedicii used the common praenomina Lucius, Gaius, Marcus, and Quintus.
Branches and cognomina
The only cognomen found among the Caedicii of the Republic is Noctua, an owl. Surnames derived from familiar objects and animals were quite common at Rome. Noctia seems to have been a personal cognomen, as it was not borne by later Caedicii. None of the other Caedicii mentioned in history bore any surname.[1][4][5] Several numismatists, such as Grueber, nevertheless suggest that this cognomen was a reference to a supernatural warning that Marcus Caedicius witnessed before the Gallic Sack of Rome in 390 BC.[6][7]
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Lucius Caedicius,
- Gaius Caedicius, a
- Quintus Caedicius, father of Quintus Caedicius Noctua, the consul of 289 BC.[15]
- Quintus Caedicius Q. f. Noctua, consul in 289 BC. He was censor in 283, but resigned, perhaps due to the death of his colleague, whose name has not been preserved.[15][16]
- Quintus Caedicius Q. f. Q. n., consul in 256 BC, during the
- Caecidius Noctua, triumvir monetalis between 194 and 190 BC.[7][18]
See also
References
- ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 531 ("Caedicia Gens").
- ^ Juvenal, Satirae, xiii. 197, xvi. 46.
- ^ Chase, p. 126.
- ^ Chase, pp. 112, 113.
- ^ New College Latin & English Dictionary, s. v. noctua.
- ^ Livy, v. 32.
- ^ a b Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, vol. II, pp. 217, 218.
- ^ Livy, ii. 52.
- ^ Dionysius, ix. 28.
- ^ Livy, v. 32, 45, 46.
- ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Camillus", 14.
- ^ Zonaras, vi. 23.
- ^ Appianus, Bella Celtica, 5.
- ^ Livy, x. 40.
- ^ a b c Fasti Capitolini, AE 1927, 101; 1940, 59, 60.
- ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 184, 188.
- ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 208.
- ^ Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 211.
Bibliography
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia (Roman Antiquities).
- Titus Livius (History of Rome.
- Satirae(Satires).
- Plutarchus, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
- Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bella Celtica (The Gallic Wars).
- Joannes Zonaras, Epitome Historiarum (Epitome of History).
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
- Herbert Appold Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, Vol. I-III, London, Trustees of the British Museum (1910).
- T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952–1986).
- Michael Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge University Press (1974, 2001).
- John C. Traupman, The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Bantam Books, New York (1995).