The name Caelius (sometimes spelled Coelius) is an ancient Roman nomen and may refer to: *

Caelius Vibenna Caelius Vibenna, (Etruscan ''Caile Vipina'', was a noble Etruscan who lived c. 750 BCE (but see below) and brother of Aulus Vibenna (Etruscan ''Avile Vipina''). Upon arriving at Rome, Vibenna aided Romulus in his wars against Titus Tatius. He and h ...

(8th century BC), a noble Etruscan *

Gaius Coelius Caldus Gaius Coelius Caldus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 94 BC alongside his colleague Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. In 107 BC, Coelius Caldus was elected tribune of the plebs and passed a '' lex tabellaria,'' which ordained that in cases of ...

or Caelius (2nd–1st century BC), a consul of the Roman Republic *

Marcus Caelius Rufus Marcus Caelius Rufus (28 May 82 BC – after 48 BC) was an orator and politician in the late Roman Republic. He was born into a wealthy equestrian family from Interamnia Praetuttiorum (Teramo), on the central east coast of Italy. He is best known ...

(1st century BC), an orator and politician in the late Roman Republic *

Marcus Caelius Marcus Caelius ( – ) was the senior centurion ( Primus pilus) in XVIII Roman Legion who was killed in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. He is known from his cenotaph, which was discovered in 1620 in Birten (now a part of Xanten), Germa ...

(45 BC–9 AD), a senior centurion of the Imperial Roman army * Marcus Roscius Caelius (1st century AD), a Roman military officer *

Balbinus Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (died 238 AD) was Roman emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors. Origins and career Not much is known about Balbinus before his elevation to emperor. It has been conjectu ...

or Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (178–238), Roman Emperor *

Lactantius Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) was an early Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, and a tutor to his son Cr ...

or Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (250–325), an early Christian author *

Caelius Aconius Probianus Caelius Aconius Probianus (''fl.'' 461–471) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire. He was Praetorian prefect of Italy under Emperors Leo I and Libius Severus; considering that his successor Caecina Decius Basilius was in office in 463, P ...

(fl. 461-471), a politician of the Western Roman Empire *

Caelius Sedulius Sedulius (sometimes with the Roman naming conventions#nomen, nomen Coelius or Caelius, both of doubtful authenticity) was a Christians, Christian poet of the first half of the 5th century. Biography Extremely little is known about his life. Seduli ...

(5th century AD), a Christian poet *

Caelius Aurelianus Caelius Aurelianus of Sicca in Numidia was a Greco-Roman physician and writer on medical topics. He is best known for his translation from Greek to Latin of a work by Soranus of Ephesus, ''On Acute and Chronic Diseases''. He probably flourishe ...

(5th century AD), a Roman physician and writer * Caelius Rhodiginus (1469–1525), a Venetian writer and professor * Caelius Calcagninus (1479-1541), an Italian humanist and scientist *

Caelius Secundus Curio Celio Secondo Curione (1 May 1503, in Cirié – 24 November 1569, in Basel) (usual Latin form Caelius Secundus Curio) was an Italian humanist, grammarian, editor and historian, who exercised a considerable influence upon the Italian Reformation. ...

(1503–1569), an Italian humanist, editor and historian

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Collis Caelius The Caelian Hill (; la, Collis Caelius; it, Celio ) is one of the famous seven hills of Rome. Geography The Caelian Hill is a sort of long promontory about long, to wide, and tall in the park near the Temple of Claudius. The hill over ...

, one of the Seven Hills of Rome, Italy *'' Psychonotis caelius'' or the small green banded blue, a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae

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