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The gens Cuspia was a plebs, plebeian family of equites, equestrian rank at ancient Rome. Few of its members obtained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, although Lucius Cuspius Camerinus attained the Roman consul, consulship in the time of Hadrian.


Members

* Publius Cuspius, an equites, eques, twice ''magister'' of the publicani who farmed the taxes in the province of Africa (Roman province), Africa. Cicero indulged him by recommending a number of his friends to Quintus Valerius Orca, proconsul of Africa in 45 BC. * Cuspius Fadus, an eques during the reign of the emperor Claudius, who appointed him Procurator (Roman), Procurator of Judea (Roman province), Judaea in AD 44, following the death of Herod Agrippa. His government was generally peaceful, although he suppressed a potential revolt by the self-proclaimed prophet Teudas and his followers, whom Fadus put to death. *Gaius Cuspius Pansa, one of the last Aedile, aediles of Pompeii before Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, its destruction. * Lucius Cuspius Camerinus, a descendant of Italian settlers in Pergamum, was Roman consul, consul ''suffectus'' in AD 126. * Lucius Cuspius Pactumeius Rufinus, consul in AD 142. * Cuspius Rufinus, consul in 197.The sources disagree on his praenomen: attests "Lucius", while attests "Gaius"


See also

* List of Roman gentes


References


Bibliography

* Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, ''Epistulae ad Familiares''. * Josephus, Flavius Josephus, ''Antiquities of the Jews, Antiquitates Judaïcae'' (Antiquities of the Jews); ''The Jewish War, Bellum Judaïcum'' (The Jewish War). * Tacitus, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, ''Histories (Tacitus), Historiae''. * Eusebius of Caesarea, ''Church History (Eusebius), Historia Ecclesiastica''. * Joannes Zonaras, ''Epitome Historiarum'' (Epitome of History). * ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith (lexicographer), William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). * Anthony Birley, Anthony R. Birley, "Hadrian and Greek Senators", in ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'', vol. 116 (1997). Roman gentes {{Roman-gens-stub