The gens Gratidia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Originally coming from Arpinum, members of this gens are known from the final century of the Republic.[1]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ A law permitting election by ballot.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 303 ("Gratidius").
  2. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, p. 1091 ("Tabellariae Leges").
  3. ^ Cicero, De Legibus, iii. 16, 36; Brutus, 45, 168.
  4. ^ Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. I, p. 61.
  5. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 568, 569.
  6. ^ Cicero, De Legibus, iii. 16.
  7. ^ Valerius Maximus, ix. 7. § 1.
  8. ^ Orosius, v. 19. § 4.
  9. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Sulla", 8, 9.
  10. ^ Syme, Approaching the Roman Revolution, p. 137.
  11. ^ Cicero, Brutus, 62; De Legibus, iii. 16; De Officiis, iii. 16, 20; De Oratore, i. 39, ii. 65.
  12. ^ Asconius, Cicero's In Toga Candida, p. 84 (ed. Orelli).
  13. ^ Quintus Cicero, De Petitione Consulatus, 3.
  14. ^ Seneca, De Ira, 3.
  15. ^ Pliny, xxxiii. 9.
  16. ^ Sallust, Historiae, fragmenta i. 37 and commentary (ed. Patrick McGushin, 1992).
  17. ^ Syme, Sallust, pp. 85, 86.
  18. ^ Cicero Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem, i. 4.

Bibliography

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Legibus, Brutus, De Officiis, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem.
  • Quintus Asconius Pedianus, Commentarius in Oratio Ciceronis In Toga Candida.
  • Quintus Tullius Cicero, De Petitione Consulatus (attributed).
  • Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust), Historiae.
  • Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium (Memorable Facts and Sayings).
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Ira (On Anger).
  • Gaius Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis (Natural History).
  • Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch), Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
  • Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos (History Against the Pagans).
  • Wilhelm Drumann, Geschichte Roms in seinem Übergang von der republikanischen zur monarchischen Verfassung, oder: Pompeius, Caesar, Cicero und ihre Zeitgenossen (History of Rome in its Transition from Republic to Empire, or Pompeius, Caesar, Cicero, and their Contemporaries), Königsberg (1834–1844).
  • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
  • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown, and Company, Boston (1859).
  • T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952).
  • Ronald Syme, Sallust, University of California Press (1964, 2002).
  • Ronald Syme, Approaching the Roman Revolution: Papers on Republican History, ed. Federico Santangelo, Oxford University Press (2016), ISBN 978-0-19-876706-0.
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