Talk:Caecinia gens

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'Satirist'

That part about the so-called satirist in the DGRBM is confusing. The subject of the entry seems to be one Decius, son of Lucil(i)us, whom DGRBM apparently identifies with Caecina Decius Albinus (praefectus urbi 402), the only one of the aristocratic family who fl. under Arcadius and Honorius (the comma mistakenly puts the order of names at "Decius Albinus Caecina"). But at the same time he mentions multiple Decii (a father and a son), and it's not always clear who is being referred to.

Him being a "son of Lucilius" is implied here to be a reference to (?)Gaius Lucilius. I looked at some more recent sources and this seems to be incorrect. "Decius" was apparently a son of "Lucillus" (the DGRBM's emendation to 'Lucilius' is thus wrong), and he governed Tuscany and Umbria in 417, and so did not flourish under Arcadius and Honorius. Although they may all very well be related, there is nothing in the sources connecting the satirist Decius to the aristocratic Caecinae Decii who are are mentioned in Macrobius's Saturnalia and exchanged letters with Symmachus (Caecina Decius Albinus and his father Publilius Ceionius Caecina Albinus).

@P Aculeius: so, I have removed it again, if you still care about this you might want to put it in the Decia gens page instead. Avilich (talk) 14:47, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]