Terentia (gens)

The gens Terentia was a plebeian Roman family. The name comes from the Sabine terenus ("soft").[1] The gens is mentioned from 462 BC, the year Gaius Terentillus Arsa became tribune of the plebs.[2] (Dionysius of Halicarnassus names him Gaius Terentius).[3] The Terentii ascended to the status of Roman consul with Gaius Terentius Varro, who commanded at the time of the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC. We find members of this family under the early empire, and as late as the 3rd century AD.

The principle cognomina of the Terentii during the Republic are Culleo, Lucanus, and Varro.

Members

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

Male members

Terentii Varrones

Female members

See also

References

  1. Macrobius, Saturnalia, ii. 91.
  2. Livy, iii. 9.
  3. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, History of Rome x. 1.
  4. Arnold, Thomas, History of Rome, p. 227.
  5. Livy, xxi. 63.
  6. Livy, xxxi. 50, xxxviiii. 42.
  7. Livy, xxxiii. 35.
  8. Livy, xxxix. 56, xl. 1, xl. 29.
  9. Livy, xl. 35.
  10. Livy, xlv. 18.
  11. Cicero, De Oratore, ii. 61.
  12. Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 3.
  13. Sallust, Catiline Conspiracy, 47.
  14. Cicero, ad Attica, xi. 10.
  15. Valerius Maximus
  16. Tacitus, Annales, vi. 8, 9.
  17. Tacitus, Annales, xiv. 40.
  18. Tacitus, Histories, i. 41; Plutarch, Life of Galba, 27.
  19. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, xxx. 43.11
  20. Livy, xxii. 25.
  21. Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Lucanus, Terentius", Boston, 1870.
  22. Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 2., p.831
  23. Swan, pg. 240
  24. Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
  25. Cassius Dio, Roman History LXVI.19.3
  26. Rawson, E.: "Cicero, a portrait" (1975) p.25
  27. Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, Otho, I

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