The gens Tarquitia was a patrician family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens appear in history, of whom the most illustrious was Lucius Tarquitius Fiaccus, who was magister equitum in 458 BC. Other Tarquitii are mentioned toward the end of the Republic, but were probably plebeians, rather than descendants of the patrician Tarquitii.[1]

Origin

The nomen Tarquitius is thought to be another orthography of Tarquinius, the Latin form of the Etruscan gentilicium Tarchna. The Tarquitii would therefore be of Etruscan origin, perhaps from the city of Tarquinii.

Branches and cognomina

The only cognomen associated with the Tarquitii of the Republic is Flaccus, a common surname originally describing someone flabby, or with floppy ears.[2] The other Tarquitii of the Republic bore no surname, but a variety of cognomina are found in imperial times, including Priscus, old or elder, and Catulus, a whelp.[3]

Members

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 980 ("Tarquitia Gens").
  2. ^ Chase, p. 109.
  3. ^ Chase, pp. 111, 112.
  4. ^ Fasti Capitolini, AE 1900, 83; 1904, 114.
  5. ^ Macrobius, iii. 7.
  6. ^ Servius, Ad Virgilii, iv. 43.
  7. ^ Müller, Die Etrusker, vol. ii, p. 36.
  8. ^ Frontinus, Strategemata, ii. 5.
  9. ^ Broughton, vol. II, p. 95.
  10. ^ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 77, 79 (note 4).
  11. ^ Eckhel, vol. v, pp. 134, 322.
  12. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, vi. 8.
  13. ^ Tacitus, Annales, xii. 59, xiv. 46.
  14. ^ Tacitus, Annales, xv. 11.
  15. ^ CIL XIII, 8170.
  16. ^ Rabban and Holum, Caesarea Maritima, p. 233.

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