Aufidia (gens)

The gens Aufidia was a plebeian family at Rome, which is not known until the later times of the Republic. The first member to obtain the consulship was Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes, in 71 BC.[1]

Praenomina

In Republican times, the Aufidii used the praenomina Gnaeus, Titus, Marcus, and Sextus. Lucius and Gaius are not found prior to the second century AD. The character Tullus Aufidius in Shakespeare's play Coriolanus predates the earliest historical mention of the gens by some three hundred years, but the praenomen Tullus was in general use during the period in which Coriolanus is set.[1]

Branches and cognomina

The cognomina of the Aufidii under the Republic are Lurco and Orestes. Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes was descended from the Aurelii Orestides, but was adopted by the historian Gnaeus Aufidius in his old age.[1][2]

Members

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

Aufidii in literature

See also

List of Roman gentes

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Domo Sua 13.
  3. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita xliii. 10.
  4. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis ii. 17, Pro Domo Sua 13, Pro Plancio 21.
  5. Eutropius, Breviarium historiae Romanae vi. 8.
  6. Digesta seu Pandectae 13. tit. 6. s. 5. § 7, 35. tit. 1. s. 40. § 3, 39. tit. 3. s. 2. § 6.
  7. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares xii. 26, 27.
  8. R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (1965).
  9. Portus Lemanis, Roman-Britain.org
  10. Digesta seu Pandectae 5. tit. 3. s. 20 [22]. § 6.
  11. ’’Fragmenta Vaticana’’ § 77.
  12. Johann Caspar von Orelli, Inscriptionum Latinarum Selectarum Collectio n. 1176.
  13. William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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