The gens Iccia was a minor plebeian family at

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. It is known primarily from a small number of individuals who lived during the first century BC,''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. II, p. 559 ("Iccius"). as well as a number of inscriptions from Gallia Narbonensis.

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* Iccius, a native of

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, a town of

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, who led a deputation from the town to seek an alliance with

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in 57 BC. On his return, he defended Bibrax from hostile Belgae. This Iccius was probably not of Roman ancestry, but he may have obtained a Roman name, perhaps from one of the Iccii in Caesar's army; or the resemblance may be accidental. * Marcus Iccius, appointed

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by Marcus Antonius in November of 44 BC, shortly before Antonius' departure for Cisalpine Gaul. * Iccius, a friend of

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, who tried to dissuade him from seeking adventure and material wealth. In 25 BC, Horace addressed an ode to Iccius, who was preparing to accompany

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on his expedition to

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. About ten years later, Horace composed an epistle to Iccius, who was then

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to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in Sicily. * Gaius Iccius Vaticanus, a lamp-maker at Rome. * Marcus Iccius, the maker of a small vessel found at Gratianopolis. * Marcus Iccius, the maker of a small vessel found at

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. * Marcus Iccius Mummius, commemorated on a tall ''

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'' from Vocontiorum. * Marcus Iccius Soterichus, named on a ''cippus'' at Nemausus. * Publius Iccius Veratianus, found on an inscription in chapel ruins from

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. * Iccius Vitalis, mentioned in an inscription found in a garden at Nemausus. * Iccia M. f., commemorated on a huge stone at Noviomagus Tricastinorum.CIL XII. 1733.

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, ''

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, ''

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''. * Quintus Horatius Flaccus ( Horace), '' Carmen Saeculare, Epistulae''. * ''

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). * Samuel Birch, ''History of Ancient Pottery: Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman'', John Murray, London (1873). * '' Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Iccia (gens) Roman gentes Gallia Narbonensis

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