The gens Sulpicia was one of the most ancient

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families at

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, and produced a succession of distinguished men, from the foundation of the Republic to the imperial period. The first member of the gens who obtained the

consulship A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...

was Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus, in 500 BC, only nine years after the expulsion of the

Tarquins The gens Tarquinia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, usually associated with Lucius Tarquinius Priscus and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the fifth and seventh Kings of Rome. Most of the Tarquinii who appear in history are connected in some way ...

, and the last of the name who appears on the consular list was Sextus Sulpicius Tertullus in AD 158. Although originally patrician, the family also possessed plebeian members, some of whom may have been descended from

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of the gens.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. III, p. 945 ("

Sulpicia Gens The gens Sulpicia was one of the most ancient patrician families at ancient Rome, and produced a succession of distinguished men, from the foundation of the Republic to the imperial period. The first member of the gens who obtained the consu ...

").

Praenomina

The Sulpicii made regular use of only four

praenomina The ''praenomen'' (; plural: ''praenomina'') was a personal name chosen by the parents of a Roman child. It was first bestowed on the ''dies lustricus'' (day of lustration), the eighth day after the birth of a girl, or the ninth day after the birt ...

: '' Publius, Servius, Quintus'', and '' Gaius''. The only other praenomen appearing under the Republic is '' Marcus'', known from the father of Gaius Sulpicius Peticus, five times consul during the fourth century BC. The last of the Sulpicii known to have held the consulship, in the second century AD, was named '' Sextus'', a praenomen otherwise unknown in this gens.

Branches and cognomina

During the Republic, several branches of the Sulpician gens were identified by numerous cognomina, including ''Camerinus, Cornutus, Galba, Gallus, Longus, Paterculus, Peticus, Praetextatus, Quirinus, Rufus, and Saverrio''. In addition to these cognomina, we meet with some other surnames belonging to freedmen and to other persons under the Empire. On coins we find the surnames ''Galba, Platorinus, Proclus'', and ''Rufus''. ''Camerinus'' was the name of an old patrician family of the Sulpicia gens, which probably derived its name from the ancient town of

Cameria Cameria or Camerium was an ancient city of Latium, which according to tradition was conquered by Rome in the time of the Kings, and destroyed following a revolt against Roman authority in 502 BC. Its inhabitants were known as Camerini.''Dictionar ...

or Camerium, in

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. Many of them bore the agnomen ''Cornutus'', from a Latin adjective meaning "horned". The Camerini frequently held the highest offices in the state in the early times of the Republic; but after 345 BC, when Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Rufus was consul, we do not hear of them again for upwards of three hundred years, till Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus obtained the consulship in AD 9. The family was reckoned one of the noblest in Rome in the early times of the Empire. The Praetextati appear in the second half of the fifth century BC. The family appears to have been a small one, descended from the Camerini. It probably derived its name from one of several related meanings. ''Praetextus'' commonly referred to clothing with a decorative border, and especially to the ''toga praetexta'', a toga with a purple border worn by boys and magistrates. Something veiled or concealed could also be described as ''praetextatus''. The Sulpicii Longi flourished during the fourth century BC, from the time of the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 to the period of the

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. The cognomen ''Longus'' may have been bestowed upon the ancestor of this family because he was particularly tall. The surname ''Rufus'', meaning "red", probably referred to the color of the hair of one of the Sulpicii, and may have begun as a cadet branch of the Camerini, as both cognomina were united in the consul of 345 BC. Several Sulpicii bearing this surname appear towards the end of the Republic, but as some appear to have been patricians and others plebeians, they may have constituted two distinct families.Badian, "The Clever and the Wise", pp. 6–7 (and note 6).Evans, "Review", pp. 765–766. The Sulpicii Galli were a family of the second and third centuries BC. Their cognomen may refer to a cock, or to a

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. The greatest of this family,

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, was a successful general and statesman, as well as an orator and scholar much admired by

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. The Sulpicii Galbae first came to prominence during the Second Punic War, and remained distinguished until the first century AD, when Servius Sulpicius Galba claimed the title of Emperor. Suetonius gives four possible explanations of this surname: that the first of the family burnt a town he had besieged, using torches smeared with ''galbanum'', a type of gum; or that, chronically ill, he made regular use of a type of remedy wrapped in wool, known as ''galbeum''; or that ''galba'' was a Gallic word for someone very fat; or instead that he resembled a ''galba'', a grub or caterpillar. The surname may also share a common root with the adjective ''galbinus'', a greenish-yellow color.

Members

Sulpicii Camerini

* Publius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus, father of the consul of 500 BC.Broughton, vol. I, p. 10. * Servius Sulpicius P. f. Camerinus Cornutus,

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in 500 BC. *

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, consul in 490 BC, and one of the ambassadors sent to intercede with

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. * Servius Sulpicius Ser. f. P. n. Camerinus Cornutus, father of the consul of 461 BC. * Servius Sulpicius Ser. f. Ser. n. Camerinus Cornutus, consul in 461 BC, and one of the ''

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'' of 451. In 446, he commanded the Roman cavalry against the

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and

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. * Quintus Sulpicius Ser. f. Ser. n. Camerinus Cornutus, consular tribune in 402 and 398 BC. * Servius Sulpicius Q. f. Ser. n. Camerinus, consul ''suffectus'' in 393 BC, and consular tribune in 391. He was

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in 387. * Servius Sulpicius (Camerinus) Rufus, consular tribune in 388, 384, and 383 BC. * Gaius Sulpicius Camerinus, consular tribune in 382, and censor in 380 BC, resigned his office upon the death of his colleague. * Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Rufus, consul 345 BC. * Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus, grandfather of the consul of AD 9. * Quintus Sulpicius Q. f. Camerinus, father of the consul of AD 9. * Quintus Sulpicius Q. f. Q. n. Camerinus, consul in AD 9. *

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, consul in AD 46, he was accused of extortion while

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in 59, and shortly afterward put to death by

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.Cassius Dio, lxiii. 18.Pliny the Younger ''Epistulae'', v. 3. * Quintus Sulpicius Q. f. Camerinus Pythicus, the son of Peticus, was also put to death under Nero.

Sulpicii Praetextati

* Quintus Sulpicius Ser. f. Camerinus Praetextatus, consular tribune in 434 BC. * Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus, consular tribune in 377, 376, 370, and 368 BC, sometimes confused with his kinsman, Servius Sulpicius Rufus. * Sulpicia Praetextata, the wife of Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, consul in AD 64, is mentioned at the commencement of the reign of

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, AD 70.

Sulpicii Petici

* Quintus Sulpicius Peticus, grandfather of the consul of 364 BC.Broughton, vol. I, p. 115. * Marcus Sulpicius Q. f. Peticus, father of the consul of 364 BC. * Gaius Sulpicius M. f. Q. n. Peticus, censor in 366, consul in 364, 361, 355, 353, and 351 BC, and dictator in 358.

Sulpicii Longi

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, consular tribune in 390 BC, negotiated with

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, and persuaded him to leave Rome. * Servius Sulpicius Q. f. Longus, father of the consul of 337 BC. * Gaius Sulpicius Ser. f. Q. n. Longus, consul in 337, 323, and 314 BC, and dictator in 312, triumphed over the Samnites.

Sulpicii Saverriones

* Publius Sulpicius Saverrio, grandfather of the consul of 304 BC.Broughton, vol. I, p. 167. * Servius Sulpicius P. f. Saverrio, father of the consul of 304 BC. * Publius Sulpicius Ser. f. P. n. Saverrio, consul in 304 and censor in 300 BC, triumphed over the Samnites. * Publius Sulpicius P. f. Ser. n. Saverrio, consul in 279 BC, during the war against Pyrrhus.

Sulpicii Paterculi

* Quintus Sulpicius Paterculus, grandfather of the consul of 258 BC.Broughton, vol. I, p. 206. * Quintus Sulpicius Q. f. Paterculus, father of the consul of 258 BC. * Gaius Sulpicius Q. f. Q. n. Paterculus, consul in 258 BC, during the First Punic War, triumphed over the

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. * Servius Sulpicius Paterculus, the father of Sulpicia, who dedicated the temple of Venus Verticordia. * Sulpicia Ser. f., who married Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, was thought to be the chastest woman in Rome, selected to dedicate the temple of Venus Verticordia in 113 BC.

Sulpicii Galli

* Servius Sulpicius Gallus, grandfather of the consul of 243 BC.Broughton, vol. I, p. 217. * Gaius Sulpicius Ser. f. Gallus, father of the consul of 243 BC. * Gaius Sulpicius C. f. Ser. n. Gallus, consul in 243 BC.''

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''. * Gaius Sulpicius C. f. Gallus, father of the consul of 166 BC.Broughton, vol. I, p. 437. * Gaius Sulpicius C. f. C. n. Gallus, a great scholar; as consul in 166 BC, triumphed over the

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. * Quintus Sulpicius C. f. C. n. Gallus, died at an early age, and his death was borne by his father with great fortitude. * Galus Sulpicius, consul ''suffectus'' in 4 BC. Believed to be a descendant of the consul of 166 BC. *Galus Sulpicius, son of the above. '' triumvir monetalis'' in 5 BC.

Sulpicii Galbae

* Publius Sulpicius Galba, grandfather of the consul of 211 BC.Broughton, vol. I, p. 272. * Servius Sulpicius P. f. Galba, father of the consul of 211 BC. * Publius Sulpicius Ser. f. P. n. Galba Maximus, consul in 211 and 200 BC, and

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in 203. * Servius Sulpicius Galba,

curule aedile ''Aedile'' ( ; la, aedīlis , from , "temple edifice") was an elected office of the Roman Republic. Based in Rome, the aediles were responsible for maintenance of public buildings () and regulation of public festivals. They also had powers to enf ...

in 208 BC, and afterwards a

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, in the place of

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. * Gaius Sulpicius Galba, elected pontifex in 202 BC, in place of Titus Manlius Torquatus, but he died ''circa'' 199. * Servius Sulpicius Galba, as curule aedile in 189 BC, he used the fines collected by his office to dedicate twelve gilt shields in the temple of

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. He was praetor ''urbanus'' in 187, and an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship in 185. * Gaius Sulpicius Galba, praetor ''urbanus'' in 171 BC. * Servius Sulpicius Ser. f. P. n. Galba, tried for his atrocities against the

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in 150 BC, but was acquitted, and served as consul in 144 BC. Cicero describes him as an orator of no mean talent.Suetonius, "The Life of Galba", 3. * Gaius Sulpicius Ser. f. Ser. n. Galba, quaestor in 120 BC, and a pontifex, condemned by the ''lex Mamilia'' of 110 BC. * Servius Sulpicius Ser. f. Ser. n. Galba, consul in 108 BC. * Servius Sulpicius Galba, praetor about 91 BC. * Publius Sulpicius Galba, appointed one of the judges in the case of

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, in 70 BC, afterwards a pontifex and augur. He had been praetor, but the year is uncertain; perhaps 66. * Servius Sulpicius (Ser. f.) Ser. n. Galba, praetor ''urbanus'' in 54 BC, and a friend of Caesar, but perhaps also one of the conspirators against him. * Gaius Sulpicius Ser. f. (Ser. n.) Galba, a minor historian, and grandfather of the emperor Galba; he held the praetorship, but the year is uncertain. * Gaius Sulpicius C. f. Ser. n. Galba, father of the emperor Galba, was consul ''suffectus'' in 5 BC.Oliver, "C. Sulpicius Galba". * Servius Sulpicius C. f. Ser. n. Galba, younger son of the historian Gaius Sulpicius Galba, and uncle of Servius, the emperor. * Gaius Sulpicius C. f. C. n. Galba, consul in AD 22, brother of the emperor. * Servius Sulpicius C. f. C. n. Galba, consul in 33, and emperor in AD 69.

Sulpicii Rufi

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, tribune of the plebs in 88 BC, a distinguished orator, and afterwards a partisan of

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. * Quintus Sulpicius Rufus, father of the jurist. * Servius Sulpicius Q. f. Rufus, consul in 51 BC, an eminent jurist and contemporary of

. *

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, daughter of the consul of 51 BC. Wife of

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. Her husband was proscribed by the

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in 43 BC. She followed her husband to

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, against the wishes of her mother, Julia. * Publius Sulpicius (P. f.) Rufus,

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in 48 BC, had been a legate of

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and during his first campaign in Hispania. He was censor in 42. * Servius Sulpicius Ser. f. Q. n. Rufus, a supporter of Caesar, frequently mentioned by Cicero. * Sulpicius Rufus, procurator of the public games, was slain by the emperor Claudius because he was privy to the marriage of

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and

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Others

* Gaius Sulpicius, praetor in 211 BC, was assigned the province of

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. * Sulpicia, the mother-in-law of Spurius Postumius Albinus, consul in 186 BC. * Servius Sulpicius, mentioned by Quintus Horatius Flaccus as an author of love-poems. * Publius Sulpicius (P. f.) Quirinus, censor in 42 BC, and consul ''suffectus'' in 36 BC. * Publius Sulpicius P. f. P. n. Quirinius, also called ''Quirinius'', consul in 12 BC, and later governor of Syria. * Sulpicius Flavus, a companion of the emperor Claudius, whom he assisted in the composition of his historical works. * Sulpicius Asper, a centurion, and one of the conspirators against

, discovered and put to death in AD 66. * Sulpicius Florus, an infantryman granted

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under the emperor Galba, who later participated in the emperor's overthrow. * Sulpicius Blitho, a source cited by the biographer

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. *

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, and

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. A satire upon the edict of

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banishing philosophers from Italy, found among the works of Ausonius, is generally attributed to her. *

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, the wife of Flavius Cerealis,

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of a cohort at

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, ''circa'' AD 103. *

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, governor of

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from AD 107 to 112, and Praetorian Prefect from 112 to 118. * Sulpicius Apollinaris, a grammarian, and a friend and contemporary of Aulus Gellius during the later second century. He was probably the same Sulpicius Apollinaris who was a tutor of

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. * Sulpicius of Carthage, the author of two poems in the ''Latin Anthology'', identified by some authorities with Sulpicius Apollinaris. * Sextus Sulpicius Tertullus, consul in AD 158. * Sulpicia Memmia, one of the three wives of

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. Her father was a man of consular rank; her grandfather's name was ''Catulus''. * Sulpicia Dryantilla, daughter of Sulpicius Pollio and wife of

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Regalianus P. C. Regalianus (died 260/261), also known as Regalian, was Roman usurper for a few months in 260 and/or 261, during the Crisis of the Third Century, a period of intense political instability in the Roman Empire. Regalianus was acclaimed emperor ...

during the

Crisis of the Third Century The Crisis of the Third Century, also known as the Military Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis (AD 235–284), was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed. The crisis ended due to the military victories of Aurelian and with the ascensio ...

. Received the title of Augusta. Possibly killed with her husband in 260. * Sulpicius Lupercus Servastus, a

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

poet, of whom nothing is known except his elegy, ''De Cupiditate'', and a Sapphic ode, ''De Vetustate''.Wernsdorf, ''Poëtae Latini Minores'', iii. p. 235 ''ff'', 408. *

Sulpicius Severus Sulpicius Severus (; c. 363 – c. 425) was a Christian writer and native of Aquitania in modern-day France. He is known for his chronicle of sacred history, as well as his biography of Saint Martin of Tours. Life Almost all that we know of Sev ...

, an ecclesiastical historian of the late 4th and early 5th centuries.

Christian figures

, a saint from Aquitania who wrote the earliest biography of Saint Martin of Tours. * Sulpitius, the name of several saints.

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* Polybius, '' Historiae'' (The Histories). *

Gaius Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a 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 a civil war, and ...

, ''

Commentarii de Bello Gallico ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'' (; en, Commentaries on the Gallic War, italic=yes), also ''Bellum Gallicum'' ( en, Gallic War, italic=yes), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it C ...

'' (Commentaries on the Gallic War), ''

Commentarii de Bello Civili ''Commentarii de Bello Civili'' ''(Commentaries on the Civil War)'', or ''Bellum Civile'', is an account written by Julius Caesar of his war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Roman Senate. It consists of three books covering the events of 49–4 ...

'' (Commentaries on the Civil War). *

Marcus Tullius Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...

, '' Academica Priora'', ''

Brutus Marcus Junius Brutus (; ; 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC), often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Serv ...

'', ''

Cato Maior de Senectute ("Cato the Elder on Old Age") is an essay written by Cicero in 44 BC on the subject of aging and death. To lend his reflections greater import, Cicero wrote his essay such that the esteemed Cato the Elder was lecturing to Scipio Africanus and G ...

'', ''De Haruspicum Responsis'', '' De Officiis'', '' De Oratore'', '' De Republica'', ''

Epistulae ad Atticum ''Epistulae ad Atticum'' (Latin for "Letters to Atticus") is a collection of letters from Roman politician and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero to his close friend Titus Pomponius Atticus. The letters in this collection, together with Cicero's ot ...

'', ''

Epistulae ad Familiares ''Epistulae ad Familiares'' (''Letters to Friends'') is a collection of letters between Roman politician and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero and various public and private figures. The letters in this collection, together with Cicero's other letter ...

'', ''

In Verrem "In Verrem" ("Against Verres") is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres, the former governor of Sicily. The speeches, which were concurrent with Cicero's election to the aedileshi ...

'', ''

Laelius de Amicitia ''Laelius de Amicitia'' (or simply ''De Amicitia'') is a treatise on friendship ('' amicitia'') by the Roman statesman and author Marcus Tullius Cicero, written in 44 BC. Background The work is written as a dialogue between prominent figures of t ...

'', ''Orator ad M. Brutum'', ''

Philippicae The ''Philippics'' ( la, Philippicae, singular Philippica) are a series of 14 speeches composed by Cicero in 44 and 43 BC, condemning Mark Antony. Cicero likened these speeches to those of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon; both Demo ...

'', ''Pro Murena'', ''Pro Gaio Rabirio Perduellionis Reo'', ''

Rhetorica ad Herennium The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' (''Rhetoric for Herennius''), formerly attributed to Cicero or Cornificius, but in fact of unknown authorship, sometimes ascribed to an unnamed doctor, is the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric, dating from the ...

'' (attributed), ''

Tusculanae Quaestiones The ''Tusculanae Disputationes'' (also ''Tusculanae Quaestiones''; English: ''Tusculan Disputations'') is a series of five books written by Cicero, around 45 BC, attempting to popularise Greek philosophy in Ancient Rome, including Stoicism. It is s ...

''. *

Quintus Tullius Cicero Quintus Tullius Cicero ( , ; 102 – 43 BC) was a Roman statesman and military leader, the younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero. He was born into a family of the equestrian order, as the son of a wealthy landowner in Arpinum, some south-east ...

, '' De Petitione Consulatus'' (attributed). *

, ''De Viris Illustribus'' (On the Lives of Famous Men). * Diodorus Siculus, '' Bibliotheca Historica'' (Library of History). * Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Romaike Archaiologia'' (Roman Antiquities). * Titus Livius (

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in ...

), ''

History of Rome The history of Rome includes the history of the city of Rome as well as the civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential on the modern world, especially in the history of the Catholic Church, and Roman law has influenced m ...

''. * Strabo, '' Geographica''. *

Marcus Velleius Paterculus Marcus Velleius Paterculus (; c. 19 BC – c. AD 31) was a Roman historian, soldier and senator. His Roman history, written in a highly rhetorical style, covered the period from the end of the Trojan War to AD 30, but is most useful for the per ...

, ''Compendium of Roman History''. *

Valerius Maximus Valerius Maximus () was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: ''Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX'' ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as ''De factis dictisque memorabilibus'' ...

, '' Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium'' (Memorable Facts and Sayings). * Quintus Asconius Pedianus, ''Commentarius in Oratio Ciceronis In Toga Candida'' (Commentary on Cicero's Oration ''In Toga Candida''), ''Commentarius in Oratio Ciceronis Pro Scauro'' (Commentary on Cicero's Oration ''Pro Scauro''). * Gaius Plinius Secundus (

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ' ...

), ''

Naturalis Historia The ''Natural History'' ( la, Naturalis historia) is a work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day, the ''Natural History'' compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors. ...

'' (Natural History). * Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus ( Pliny the Younger), '' Epistulae'' (Letters). *

Flavius Josephus Flavius Josephus (; grc-gre, Ἰώσηπος, ; 37 – 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for '' The Jewish War'', who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly ...

, '' Antiquitates Judaïcae'' (Antiquities of the Jews). *

Publius Cornelius Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. The surviving portions of his two major works—the ...

, ''

Annales Annals are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year. The equivalent word in Latin and French is ''annales'', which is used untranslated in English in various contexts. List of works with titles contai ...

'', '' Historiae''. *

Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for hi ...

us, ''

Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Plutarch's ''Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans'', commonly called ''Parallel Lives'' or ''Plutarch's Lives'', is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably writt ...

''. * Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, '' De Vita Caesarum'' (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars). *

Marcus Cornelius Fronto Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. 100late 160s AD), best known as Fronto, was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician, and advocate. Of Berber origin, he was born at Cirta (modern-day Constantine, Algeria) in Numidia. He was suffect consul for the '' nundin ...

, ''Epistulae'' (Letters). * Appianus Alexandrinus (

Appian Appian of Alexandria (; grc-gre, Ἀππιανὸς Ἀλεξανδρεύς ''Appianòs Alexandreús''; la, Appianus Alexandrinus; ) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Emperors of Rome Trajan, Ha ...

), ''Bellum Civile'' (The Civil War), ''Hispanica'' (The Spanish Wars), ''Macedonica'' (The Macedonian Wars). * Aulus Gellius, ''Noctes Atticae'' (Attic Nights). * Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (

Cassius Dio Lucius Cassius Dio (), also known as Dio Cassius ( ), was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek origin. He published 80 volumes of the history on ancient Rome, beginning with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. The volumes documented the ...

), ''Roman History''. * Aelius Lampridius, Aelius Spartianus, Flavius Vopiscus, Julius Capitolinus, Trebellius Pollio, and Vulcatius Gallicanus, '' Historia Augusta'' (Augustan History). *

Julius Obsequens Julius Obsequens was a Roman writer active in the 4th or early 5th centuries AD, during late antiquity. His sole known work is the ''Prodigiorum liber'' (''Book of Prodigies''), a tabulation of the wonders and portents that had occurred in the Ro ...

, ''Liber de Prodigiis'' (The Book of Prodigies). *

Sextus Aurelius Victor Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire. Victor was the author of a short history of imperial Rome, entitled ''De Caesaribus'' and covering the period from Augustus to Constantius II. The work w ...

, ''De Caesaribus'' (On the Caesars). *

Aelius Donatus Aelius Donatus (; fl. mid-fourth century AD) was a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. Works He was the author of a number of professional works, of which several are extant: *Ars maior – A commentary on Latin grammar. * Ars minor � ...

, ''Vita Virgilii'' (The Life of Vergil). * Eutropius, ''Breviarium Historiae Romanae'' (Abridgement of the History of Rome). * Decimius Magnus Ausonius, ''Cento Nuptialis''. *

Paulus Orosius Paulus Orosius (; born 375/385 – 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo. It is possible that he was born in ''Bracara Augusta'' (now Braga, Portugal), th ...

, ''Historiarum Adversum Paganos'' (History Against the Pagans). *

Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, usually referred to as Macrobius (fl. AD 400), was a Roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, during late antiquity, the period of time corresponding to the Later Roman Empire, and when Latin was ...

, ''Saturnalia''. * Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, ''Panegyrici''. * Joannes Zonaras, ''Epitome Historiarum'' (Epitome of History). * Pieter Burmann, ''

Anthologia Latina The ''Latin Anthology'' is a modern name given to a collection of Latin verse, from the age of Ennius to about 1000, formed by Pieter Burmann the Younger. Nothing corresponding to the Greek Anthology is known to have existed among the Romans, th ...

'' (Latin Anthology), ed. Wernsdorf, (1759–1778). * Johann Christian Wernsdorf, ''Poëtae Latini Minores'' (Minor Latin Poets), Altenburg, Helmstedt (1780–1799). *

Barthold Georg Niebuhr Barthold Georg Niebuhr (27 August 1776 – 2 January 1831) was a Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography. By 1810 Niebuhr wa ...

, ''The History of Rome'', Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall, trans., John Smith, Cambridge (1828), ''Lectures on the History of Rome'', (ed. L. Schmitz), Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, London (1849).. * Henricus Meyerus, ''Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta ab Appio inde Caeco usque ad Q. Aurelium Symmachum'' (Fragments of Roman Orators from Appius Claudius Caecus to Quintus Aurelius Symmachus), L. Bourgeois-Mazé, Paris (1837). * ''

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 ...

'', William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). * James H. Oliver
"C. Sulpicius Galba, Proconsul of Achaia"
in ''American Journal of Archaeology'', vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 380–388 (September 1942). * T. Robert S. Broughton, ''The Magistrates of the Roman Republic'', American Philological Association (1952). * D.P. Simpson, ''Cassell's Latin and English Dictionary'', Macmillan Publishing Company, New York (1963). *

Guido Bastianini Guido Bastianini (born September 10, 1945 in Florence), Italian papyrologist and palaeographer. Bastianini finished his papyrological studies in Florence 1970. He had participated in various archaeological missions in Egypt organized by the Isti ...

,
Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30^a al 299^p
, in ''

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik The ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'' (commonly abbreviated ZPE; "Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy") is a peer-reviewed academic journal which contains articles that pertain to papyrology and epigraphy. It has been described as " ...

'', No. 17, p. 281 (1975). *

Ernst Badian Ernst Badian (8 August 1925 – 1 February 2011) was an Austrian-born classical scholar who served as a professor at Harvard University from 1971 to 1998. Early life and education Badian was born in Vienna in 1925 and in 1938 fled the Nazis wit ...

,
The Clever and the Wise: Two Roman ''cognomina'' in context
, in '' Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies'', vol. 35, supp. 51, pp. 6–12 (1988). * Richard J. Evans, "Reviewed Work: ''The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher'' by J. Jeffrey Tatum", in ''Mnemosyne'', 4th series, vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 764–767 (2002), .

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