Egnatuleia gens
The gens Egnatuleia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. The only member of the gens to achieve any of the higher offices of the state was Lucius Egnatuleius, quaestor in 44 BC.[1]
Members
[edit]- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Gaius Egnatuleius, father of the triumvir monetalis.
- Gaius Egnatuleius C. f., triumvir monetalis in 97 BC. He struck a quinarius bearing the head of Apollo on the obverse, and Victoria with a trophy on the reverse.[2][3]
- Lucius Egnatuleius, quaestor in 44 BC. He commanded the fourth legion, which deserted from Marcus Antonius to Octavian. As a reward for his conduct on this occasion, Cicero proposed in the senate that he should be allowed to hold public offices three years before the legal time.[4]
- Egnatuleius Crescens, legate of Numidia under Magnentius.[5][6]
- (? Egn)atuleius Herculius, praefectus annonae under Magnus Maximus.[7][8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum v. p. 205.
- ^ Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 332, no. 333.
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae iii. 3, 15, iv. 2, v. 19.
- ^ AE 1933, 105
- ^ PLRE, vol. 1, p. 230.
- ^ CIL XIV, 4410, CIL XIV, 4412
- ^ PLRE, vol. 1, p. 420.
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- Crawford, Michael H. (2001) [1974]. Roman Republican Coinage I. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-07492-4.
- PLRE – A.H.M. Jones & J.R. Martindale & J. Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press (1971–1992).