Lollia (gens)
The gens Lollia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of the gens do not appear at Rome until the last century of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the consulship was Marcus Lollius, in 21 BC.[1]
Origin of the gens
The Lollii appear to have been either of Samnite or Sabine origin, for a Samnite of this name is mentioned in the war with Pyrrhus, and Marcus Lollius Palicanus, who was tribune of the plebs in 71 BC, is described as a native of Picenum.[2]
Praenomina used by the gens
The praenomina used by the Lollii included Quintus, Marcus, Lucius, and Gnaeus.[3]
Branches and cognomina of the gens
The only cognomen of the Lollii in the time of the Republic was Palicanus or Palikanus, but others appear under the Empire.[4]
Members of the gens
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Lollius, a Samnite hostage during the war with Pyrrhus, afterward headed a band of outlaws.[5][6]
- Quintus Lollius, an elderly eques in Sicilia, mistreated during the administration of Verres.[7]
- Marcus Lollius Q. f., appeared on behalf of his father at the trial of Verres.[8]
- Quintus Lollius Q. f., murdered while traveling to Sicilia in order to gather evidence against Verres.[9]
- Lucius Lollius, a legate of Gnaeus Pompeius during the Mithridatic War.[10]
- Gnaeus Lollius, triumvir nocturnus, condemned, together with his colleagues, for arriving too late to extinguish a fire in the Via Sacra.[11]
- Marcus Lollius Palicanus, tribunus plebis in 71 BC, a prominent reformer, and opponent of tyranny and the abuse of power.
- Lollia, the wife of Aulus Gabinius, debauched by Caesar; perhaps a daughter of Marcus Lollius Palicanus, tribunus plebis in 71 BC.[12]
- Marcus Lollius M. f., consul in 21 BC, and guardian of Gaius Julius Caesar, the grandson of Augustus.
- Lollius Bassus, a native of Smyrna, and the author of ten epigrams in the Greek Anthology, the last of which, on the death of Germanicus, places it about AD 19.[13][14]
- Marcus Lollius M. f. M. n., son of the consul of 21 BC, was also consul, but the year is uncertain.[15][16]
- Lollius M. f. M. n., probably the younger son of the consul of 21 BC.[17]
- Lollia M. f. M. n. Paullina, married Publius Memmius Regulus, and afterward the emperor Caligula.
- Quintus Lollius Alcamenes, decurio and duumvir of an unknown municipium.[18]
- Quintus Lollius Urbicus, appointed governor of Britannia by the emperor Antoninus Pius in AD 138.
See also
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Joannes Zonaras, Epitome Historiarum, viii. 17.
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia ap. Mai., Script. Vet. Nov. Collect. vol. ii. p. 526.
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, iii. 25.
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, iii. 25.
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, iii. 25.
- ^ Appianus, Bella Mithridatica, 95.
- ^ Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium libri IX, viii. 1, damn. 5.
- ^ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum, Caesar, 50.
- ^ Anthologia Graeca.
- ^ Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, ii. 71.
- ^ Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epistulae, i. 2, 18.
- ^ Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, xii. 1.
- ^ Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epistulae, i. 2, 18.
- ^ Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764), viii. 4, 5.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).