Appuleia gens

The gens Appuleia, occasionally written Apuleia, was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, which flourished from the fifth century BC into imperial times. The first of the gens to achieve importance was Lucius Appuleius, tribune of the plebs in 391 BC.[1]

Praenomina

The principal names used by the Appuleii were Lucius, Sextus, and Gaius. There is one early instance of the praenomen Quintus, but Marcus and Gnaeus are not found before the first century BC.

Branches and cognomina

The cognomina of this gens are Decianus, Pansa, and Saturninus. Of these, only Saturninus was a regular surname. Decianus was first used by a member adopted from the Decia gens, and passed to his children.

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Appuleii Saturnini

  • Gaius Appuleius Saturninus, one of the commissioners sent by the Senate in 168 BC to inquire into and settle the disputes between the Pisani and Lunenses.[15]
  • Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, praetor in 166 BC.
  • Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, tribune of the plebs in 103 and 100 BC.
  • Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, propraetorian governor of Macedonia in 58 BC.
  • Appuleia, mother of Lepidus the Triumvir.[13]

Appuleii Deciani

Others

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 248 ("Appuleia or Apuleia Gens").
  2. Livy, v. 32.
  3. Plutarch, "The Life of Camillus", 12.
  4. Polybius, xxxii. 26.
  5. Sherk, "Senatus Consultum De Agro Pergameno", p. 368.
  6. Syme, "Senators, Tribes and Towns", pp. 111, 121–122.
  7. Broughton, vol. 3, p. 23.
  8. Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 45, 46.
  9. Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, xii. 14, 17.
  10. Appian, Bellum Civile, iii. 93.
  11. Cassius Dio, liv. 7.
  12. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, p. 317
  13. Appuleius. Strachan stemma.
  14. Scribonius Largus, De Compositione Medicamentorum, 94, 171.
  15. Livy, xlv. 13.

Bibliography

  • Polybius, Historiae (The Histories).
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, Epistulae ad Familiares.
  • Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome.
  • Scribonius Largus, De Compositione Medicamentorum (On the Composition of Medicines).
  • Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch), Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
  • Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Civile (The Civil War).
  • Cassius Dio, Roman History.
  • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
  • T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952–1986).
  • Syme, Ronald (1964). "Senators, Tribes and Towns". Historia. 13 (1): 105–125. JSTOR 4434822.
  • Robert K. Sherk, "The Text of the Senatus Consultum De Agro Pergameno", in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, vol. 7, pp. 361–369 (1966).
  • Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1989).
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