The ''gens Gargonia'' was a minor
Roman family during first and second centuries BC. Some of the
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 ...
were of
equestrian rank
The ''equites'' (; literally "horse-" or "cavalrymen", though sometimes referred to as "knights" in English) constituted the second of the property-based classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the senatorial class. A member of the equestrian o ...
, but none appear to have held any curule
magistracies.
Members
* Quintus Gargonius, the former master of Aulus Gargonius.
[''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'', vol. I, band 2, no. 677.]
* Aulus Gargonius Q. l., a freedman whose name appears in a list of foremen who built a wall and parapet for
Ceres at
Capua in 106 BC.
* Gaius Gargonius, ''
triumvir monetalis'' in 86 BC.
* Gaius Gargonius, an eques of little education, but a clear and intelligent speaker, according to
Cicero.
* Gaius Gargonius, ridiculed by
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
in the ''
Satires''. Found as "Gorgonius" in some manuscripts.
* Gargonius, a rhetorician mentioned by
Seneca the Elder
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder (; c. 54 BC – c. 39 AD), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania. He wrote a collection of reminiscences about the Roman schools of rheto ...
.
* Gnaeus Gargonius Paullinus, buried along the ''
Via Flaminia
The Via Flaminia or Flaminian Way was an ancient Roman road leading from Rome over the Apennine Mountains to ''Ariminum'' (Rimini) on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and due to the ruggedness of the mountains was the major option the Romans had ...
'' at Fulginium.
[''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'', vol. V, no. 784.]
See also
*
List of Roman gentes
References
{{reflist
Bibliography
*
Marcus Tullius Cicero, ''
Brutus''.
* Quintus Horatius Flaccus (
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
), ''
Satirae'' (Satires).
* Lucius Annaeus Seneca (
Seneca the Elder
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder (; c. 54 BC – c. 39 AD), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania. He wrote a collection of reminiscences about the Roman schools of rheto ...
), ''Controversiae'' and ''Susasoriae''.
* ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'',
William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
* ''
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
The ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (''CIL'') is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw ...
''.
Roman gentes