The gens Albucia or Albutia was a minor
plebeian family at
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family, known from the late second century BC to the first century AD. This
gens may have been of
Ligurian or
Gallic origin, as one of the best-known individuals of this name was a native of the town of
Novaria in
Cisalpine Gaul.
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Titus Albucius
Titus Albucius (praetor c. 105 BC) was a noted orator of the late Roman Republic.
He finished his studies at Athens at the latter end of the 2nd century BC, and belonged to the Epicurean sect. He was well acquainted with Greek literature, or rathe ...
, an orator and scholar of Greek literature,
praetor
Praetor ( , ), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected '' magistratus'' (magistrate), assigned to discharge vari ...
in
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...
in 105 BC.
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Gaius Albucius Silus, a rhetorician and legal advocate from Novaria, came to Rome in the time of Augustus, practicing there and at
Mediolanum
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Albucilla
Albucilla (1st-century) was a Roman noblewoman, the wife of Satrius Secundus, and was known for having had many lovers.
In the last year of the reign of the emperor Tiberius, 37 AD, she was accused of treason, or impiety, against the emperor ( ...
, accused of treason in AD 37.
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Albucius, a wealthy physician at Rome during the first century.
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List of Roman gentes
The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same '' nomen'' and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early ...
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