The gens Lentidia was a minor family at
ancient Rome
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. None of its members is known to have held public office.
Members
* Gaius Lentidius Augustalis, found on a sepulchral tablet in a house at
Pisaurum
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.
* Lucius Lentidius Saturninus, a veteran of either
Legio VII or
XI, whose name was found at
Brekovica
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in
Dalmatia
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.
* Lentidius, a partisan of
Publius Clodius Pulcher, who helped lead a mob of slaves and
gladiator
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s against Clodius' supporters in 57 BC. They attacked Publius Sestius, the
tribune of the plebs
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, and left him for dead in the
Temple of Castor and Pollux in the
forum
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Common uses
* Forum (legal), designated space for public expression in the United States
*Forum (Roman), open public space within a Roman city
**Roman Forum, most famous example
*Internet ...
.
[Cicero, ''De Domo Sua'', 33; ''Pro Sestio'', 37.]
See also
*
List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography
*
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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, ''De Domo Sua, Pro Sestio''.
* ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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'',
William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
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Theodor Mommsen
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''et alii'', ''
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
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'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated "CIL"), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
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