Aebutia gens

Ancient Roman family

The gens Aebutia was an ancient Roman family that was prominent during the early Republic. The gens was originally patrician, but also had plebeian branches.[1] The first member to obtain the consulship was Titus Aebutius Helva, consul in 499 BC.[2]

Praenomina

During the first century of the Republic, the Aebutii used the praenomina Titus, Lucius, Postumus, and Marcus. In later times, they also used the name Publius.[3]

Branches and cognomina

The patrician Aebutii used the cognomen Helva (also found as Elva in some sources). Cornicen was a personal surname belonging to one of the Helvae. No patrician Aebutius held any curule magistracy from 442 to 176 BC, when Marcus Aebutius Helva obtained the praetorship. Carus was a cognomen of the plebeian Aebutii. Later surnames include Faustus, Liberalis, and Pinnius.[4]

Members

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

Aebutii Helvae

  • Titus Aebutius T. f. Helva, consul in 499 BC.
  • Lucius Aebutius T. f. T. n. Helva , consul in 463 BC.
  • Postumus Aebutius Helva Cornicen, consul in 442 BC.
  • Marcus Aebutius Helva, appointed triumvir for the establishment of a colony at Ardea in 442 BC.
  • Marcus Aebutius Helva, praetor in 168 BC, obtained Sicilia as his province.

Other Aebutii

  • Lucius Aebutius Faustus, a freedman.[5]
  • Publius Aebutius, brought the existence of the Bacchanalia at Rome to the attention of the consul Postumius Albinus in 186 BC.[6]
  • Titus Aebutius Parrus, praetor in 178 BC, assigned to Sardinia.[7]
  • Aebutius, praetor circa 125 BC who passed a Lex Aebutia "which probably limited greatly the application of the legis actiones and increased that of formulae in litigation."[8]
  • Gaius Aebutius, an aedile in 51 BC.[9][10]
  • Publius Aebutius Pinnius, found on Corinthian coins circa 39 BC[11]
  • Aebutius Liberalis, addressee of a letter by Seneca.

See also

References

  1. ^ Robert Seymour Conway (1897). The records of Oscan, Umbrian and the minor dialects, including the Italic glosses in ancient writers, and the local and personal names of the dialectal areas.-v. 2, An outline of the grammar of the dialects, appendix, indices and glossary. University Press. pp. 9–.
  2. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
  3. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
  4. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
  5. ^ "Discussion of the Groma". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2009-04-02.
  6. ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita xxxix. 9, 11, 19.
  7. ^ Livy, 41.6
  8. ^ Broughton, T. Robert S.; Patterson, Marcia L. (1951). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Philological monographs,no. 15, v. 1-2. Vol. 1. American Philological Association. p. 510.
  9. ^ CIL I, 770, CIL X, 220;
  10. ^ Degrassi A. Inscriptiones latinae liberae rei publicae (ILLRP). — Torino, 1963. — 549 ps. — P. 92. — № 607.
  11. ^ Gebhard, Elizabeth R. (1993). "The Isthmian Games and the Sanctuary of Poseidon in the Early Empire". Journal of Roman Archaeology (Supplemental Series Number 8). Archived from the original on 2010-01-21 – via the University of Chicago Humanities Department.

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