Tarquitia (gens)

The gens Tarquitia, or Tarquitius family, was a Roman family of great antiquity. Only one member of the family is known: Lucius Tarquitius Fiaccus, who was magister equitum in BC 458 under the dictator Cincinnatus. The other Tarquitii mentioned toward the end of the Roman Republic may bear the name, but are likely not members of the same patrician family.

Members

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

• L. Tarquitius L. f. Fiaccus, magister equitum in BC 458.^[1]
• Quintus Tarquitius, may have been quaestor in BC 82.
• Lucius Tarquitius, mentioned by Cicero in BC 50.^[2]
• Quintus Tarquitius Catulus, governor of Germania Inferior sometime before AD 184.^[3][4]
• Tarquitius Priscus, a legate of Statilius Taurus in Africa, whom h e accused of extortion and practicing magic. Priscus was made governor of Bithynia by Nero, until he was condemned by the senate for extortion in AD 61.^[5]
• Tarquitius Crescens, a centurion who died in Armenia fighting Persian forces under Lucius Caesennius Paetus in AD 62.^[6]
• Tarquitius, a Roman writer who translated from Etruscan a work named Ostenturium Tuscum.

References

Sources

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Edmund Groag, Arthur Stein, Leiva Petersen, and Klaus Wachtel, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, Second Edition, abbreviated PIR²), Berlin (1933–2015).
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia Book II.
• Macrobius, Saturnalia.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus Book VI.
• Tacitus, Annales.

 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.