Ancient Roman family
The gens Erucia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned early in the first century BC; the name has been claimed as Etruscan.[1] However, in the second century of the Empire, the Erucii attained considerable distinction.[2]
Praenomina used
The praenomina associated with the Erucii are Gaius, Marcus, and Sextus.[2]
Branches and cognomina
The only family of the Erucii known to history bore the cognomen Clarus.[2]
- ^ Ronald Syme, "Pliny's Less Successful Friends", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 9 (1960), p. 374
- ^ a b c d Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Plutarchus, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Sulla 16, 18.
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Sexto Roscio 13, 16, 18-21, 29, 32, Fragm. pro Vareno 8, p. 443, ed. Orelli.
- ^ Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae i. 1, 15, ii. 9, vii. 28, viii. 1.
- ^ Aelius Spartianus, Hadrian 9, 11, 15.
- ^ Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae ii. 9.
- ^ Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History lxviii. 30.
- ^ Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae i. 15, ii. 9.
- ^ Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae vi. 6, xiii. 17.
- ^ Aelius Spartianus, Septimius Severus 1.
- ^ Digesta seu Pandectae 1. tit. 15. s. 3. § 2.
- ^ Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History lxvii. 22, lxxiv. 9.
- ^ Julius Capitolinus, Pertinax 15.
- ^ Aelius Spartianus, Septimius Severus 13.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.