The ''gens Canutia'' or ''Cannutia'' was a plebs, plebeian family at Ancient Rome, Rome. The ''gens'' appears toward the end of the Roman Republic, Republic, and is best known from two individuals, the orator Publius Canutius, and Tiberius Canutius, tribune, tribune of the plebs in 44 B.C., the year of Julius Caesar, Caesar's assassination. A Gaius Canutius mentioned by Suetonius is probably the same person as Tiberius; the reference to Canutius in Tacitus, Tacitus' ''Dialogus de oratoribus, Dialogus de Oratoribus'' may refer to either Publius or Tiberius, or perhaps to a different person altogether.
[Tacitus, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, ''Dialogus de oratoribus, Dialogus de Oratoribus'', 21.]
See also
* List of Roman gentes
Footnotes
Roman gentes
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