Gens Aquillia
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The gens Aquillia was an ancient Roman family both patrician and plebeian. On coins and inscriptions the name is almost always written Aquillius, but in manuscripts generally with a single l. This gens was of great antiquity. Two of the Aquillii are mentioned among the Roman nobles who conspired to bring back the Tarquins after their expulsion in 509 BC1; and a member of the house, Caius Aquillius Tuscus, is mentioned as consul as early as 487 BC, the first of a long series. The cognomens of the Aquillii under the republic are Corvus, Crassus, Florus, Gallus, Tuscus.
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- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Aquillia Gens", Boston, (1867)
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1 Livy, Roman History, ii. 4
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).
