The gens Cosconia was a
plebeian
In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words " commoners". Both classes were hereditary.
Etymology
The precise origins of ...
family at
Rome. Members of this
gens
In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...
are first mentioned in the
Second Punic War
The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For 17 years the two states struggled for supremacy, primarily in Ital ...
, but none ever obtained the honours of the
consulship; the first who held a curule office was Marcus Cosconius,
praetor in 135 BC.
[''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. I, p. 863 ("Cosconia Gens").]
Praenomina
The
praenomina associated with the Cosconii are ''
Marcus Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to:
* Marcus (name), a masculine given name
* Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name
Places
* Marcus, a main belt asteroid, also known as (369088) Marcus 2008 GG44
* MărcuÅŸ, a village in DobârlÄ ...
,
Gaius
Gaius, sometimes spelled ''Gajus'', Kaius, Cajus, Caius, was a common Latin praenomen; see Gaius (praenomen).
People
*Gaius (jurist) (), Roman jurist
*Gaius Acilius
*Gaius Antonius
*Gaius Antonius Hybrida
*Gaius Asinius Gallus
*Gaius Asinius Pol ...
'', and ''
Lucius''.
Members
* Marcus Cosconius,
military tribune in the army of the
praetor Publius Quinctilius Varus, fell in the battle fought with
Mago in the land of the
Insubrian Gauls, 203 BC.
* Marcus Cosconius M. f. (M. n.?), praetor in 135 BC, fought successfully with the
Scordisci in
Thrace. He is mentioned as a senator in 129.
* Lucius Cosconius M. f. M. n., ''
triumvir monetalis'' in 118 BC.
*
Gaius Cosconius
Gaius, sometimes spelled ''Gajus'', Kaius, Cajus, Caius, was a common Latin praenomen; see Gaius (praenomen).
People
* Gaius (jurist) (), Roman jurist
*Gaius Acilius
*Gaius Antonius
*Gaius Antonius Hybrida
*Gaius Asinius Gallus
*Gaius Asinius P ...
, praetor during the
Social War, where he had considerable success as a general. Probably the same Gaius Cosconius who later concluded the war in
Illyricum as
proconsul about 78 BC.
* Gaius Cosconius Calidianus, adopted from the Calidia gens, was an orator of little merit, distinguished for his vehement action and gesticulation.
* Gaius Cosconius, praetor in 63 BC, and subsequently granted the title of proconsul in
Hispania Ulterior. Accused of extortion, but acquitted. Appointed in 59 by
Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman people, Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in Caes ...
to a commission to divide the public lands in
Campania, he died.
Cicero declined Caesar's offer to replace him.
* Gaius Cosconius,
tribune of the plebs in 59 BC,
aedile in 57, and one of the judges of Publius Sextius in 56.
* Cosconius, a writer of
epigram
An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" from "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two mille ...
s during the time of
Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of ''Epigrams'', published in Rome between AD 86 and ...
, whom he attacked on account of the length of his epigrams and their lascivious nature. He is severely handled in two epigrams of Martial.
* Cosconius, the author of a grammar and a work on "actiones."
[Varro, ''De Lingua Latina'', vi. 36, 89 (ed. Müller).]
See also
*
List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography
*
Marcus Tullius Cicero, ''
Brutus'', ''
Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem
''Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem'' (''Letters to brother Quintus'') is a collection of letters from Roman politician and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero to his younger brother Quintus.
The letters in this collection, when combined with Cicero's other ...
'', ''Pro Sulla'', ''In Vatinium Testem''.
*
Marcus Terentius Varro, ''De Lingua Latina'' (On the Latin Language).
* Titus Livius (
Livy), ''
History of Rome''.
*
Marcus Valerius Martialis
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of ''Epigrams'', published in Rome between AD 86 and ...
(
Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of ''Epigrams'', published in Rome between AD 86 and ...
), ''Epigrammata'' (Epigrams).
*
Plutarchus, ''
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans''.
* Appianus Alexandrinus (
Appian), ''Bellum Civile'' (The Civil War).
*
Eutropius, ''Breviarium Historiae Romanae'' (Abridgement of the History of Rome).
*
Paulus Orosius, ''Historiarum Adversum Paganos'' (History Against the Pagans).
*
Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, ''Doctrina Numorum Veterum'' (The Study of Ancient Coins, 1792–1798).
* ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'',
William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
* Robert K. Sherk,
The Text of the ''Senatus Consultum De Agro Pergameno'', in ''Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies'', vol. 7, pp. 361–369 (1966).
*
Michael Crawford, ''Roman Republican Coinage'', Cambridge University Press (2001).
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