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Gavius
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Gavia gens.
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- Publius Gavius, an inhabitant of Cosa, whom Verres had crucified, on suspicion of aiding Spartacus.
- Titus Gavius Caepio, described by Cicero as a wealthy aristocrat. During the Civil War, his son was a military tribune under Bibulus in Syria.
- Lucius Gavius, an agent of Brutus in Cappadocia when Cicero was proconsul of Cilicia, from 51 to 50 BC. At Brutus' request, Cicero offered Gavius a prefecture, but found him very disrespectful, and referred to him as Clodius' dog. He may be the same person as the Gavius of Firmum previously mentioned by Cicero.
- Gavius (or Gabius) Bassus, a Latin grammarian in the time of Cicero. His Commentarii and Origine Verborum et Vocabulorum were cited by Aulus Gellius. He is probably the same Gavius who was the author of De Diis, discussed by Macrobius, and may have authored the Satirae quoted by Fabius Planciades Fulgentius.
- Gavius Silo, an orator heard by Augustus in 26 BC, according to Seneca the Elder.
- Gaius Gavius C. f. Macer, quaestor in AD 19.
- Marcus Gavius (or Gabius) Apicius, a celebrated gourmand during the reign of Tiberius, he squandered his fortune in the pursuit of new culinary horizons, and became the subject of numerous anecdotes and proverbs.
- Marcus Gavius P. f. Bassus, prefect of the Pontic coast during the reign of Trajan. Although sometimes identified with the grammarian, he is unlikely to have been the same person, as the grammarian related having seen the horse Sejanus, which had belonged to Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Marcus Antonius, a century and a half earlier.
- Gaius Gavius Silvanus, tribune under Nero.
- Quintus Gavius Atticus, consul suffectus in AD 73.
- Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus, consul in AD 127, was the father of Gallicanus and Orfitus, consuls in AD 150 and 165.
- Marcus Gavius M. f. Squilla Gallicanus, consul in AD 150.
- Marcus Gavius Maximus, Praetorian prefect under Antoninus Pius.
- Marcus Gavius M. f. Orfitus, consul in AD 165.
- Marcus Gavius M. f. Cornelius Cethegus, consul in AD 170.
- Marcus Gavius Appalius Maximus, governor of Lycia et Pamphylia from about 182 to 184.
- Lucius Fulvius Gavius Numisius Petronius Aemilianus, consul in AD 206.
- Lucius Fulvius Gavius Numisius Aemilianus, consul in AD 249.