Tarquitia gens
Thegens Tarquitiawas apatricianfamily atancient Rome.Few members of thisgensappear in history, of whom the most illustrious was Lucius Tarquitius Fiaccus, who wasmagister equitumin 458 BC. Other Tarquitii are mentioned toward the end of theRepublic,but were probablyplebeians,rather than descendants of the patrician Tarquitii.[1]
Origin
[edit]ThenomenTarquitiusis thought to be another orthography ofTarquinius,theLatinform of theEtruscangentiliciumTarchna.The Tarquitii would therefore be of Etruscan origin, perhaps from the city ofTarquinii.
Branches and cognomina
[edit]The onlycognomenassociated with the Tarquitii of the Republic isFlaccus,a common surname originally describing someone flabby, or with floppy ears.[2]The other Tarquitii of the Republic bore no surname, but a variety of cognomina are found inimperial times,includingPriscus,old or elder, andCatulus,a whelp.[3]
Members
[edit]- This list includes abbreviatedpraenomina.For an explanation of this practice, seefiliation.
- Lucius Tarquitius L. f. Fiaccus,magister equitumunder thedictatorLucius Quinctius Cincinnatusin BC 458.[4]
- Tarquitius,translated anEtruscanwork on prodigies into Latin, under the title ofOstenturium Tuscum.[5][6][7]
- Gaius Tarquitius L. f. Priscus,legateofSertoriusinSpainduring theSertorian War.[8][9]
- Gaius Tarquitius P. f.,quaestorin 81 BC, served underGaius Annius Luscusin Spain during the war against Sertorius.[10]
- Quintus Tarquitius, named on a coin commemorating the service of Gaius Annius Luscus in the Sertorian War, depictingVictoriadriving abiga.From its resemblance to a coin of Lucius Fabius, one of Annius' quaestors, it was supposed that Quintus Tarquitius was another quaestor.[11]
- Lucius Tarquitius, delivered a letter fromCicerotoAtticus,concerning the impendingCivil WarbetweenCaesarandPompeius,in 50 BC.[12]
- Marcus Tarquitius Priscus, alegateofStatilius TaurusinAfrica,accused Taurus of extortion and sorcery. TheSenateexpelled him as an informer.Nerorestored his rank and appointed him governor ofBithynia,but in AD 61 he was himself condemned for extortion.[13]
- Tarquitius Crescens, acenturionserving underLucius Caesennius PaetusinArmenia.He died in battle against theParthiansin AD 62.[14]
- Quintus Tarquitius Catulus,governorofGermania Inferiorsometime before AD 184.[15][16]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,vol. III, p. 980 ( "Tarquitia Gens").
- ^Chase, p. 109.
- ^Chase, pp. 111, 112.
- ^Fasti Capitolini,AE1900, 83;1904, 114.
- ^Macrobius, iii. 7.
- ^Servius,Ad Virgilii,iv. 43.
- ^Müller,Die Etrusker,vol. ii, p. 36.
- ^Frontinus,Strategemata,ii. 5.
- ^Broughton, vol. II, p. 95.
- ^Broughton, vol. II, pp. 77, 79 (note 4).
- ^Eckhel, vol. v, pp. 134, 322.
- ^Cicero,Epistulae ad Atticum,vi. 8.
- ^Tacitus,Annales,xii. 59, xiv. 46.
- ^Tacitus,Annales,xv. 11.
- ^CILXIII, 8170.
- ^Rabban and Holum,Caesarea Maritima,p. 233.
Bibliography
[edit]- Marcus Tullius Cicero,Epistulae ad Atticum.
- Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder),Historia Naturalis(Natural History).
- Sextus Julius Frontinus,Strategemata(Stratagems).
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus,Annales.
- Maurus Servius Honoratus (Servius),Ad Virgilii Aeneidem Commentarii(Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid).
- Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius,Saturnalia.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,William Smith,ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- Karl Otfried Müller,Die Etrusker,Albert Heitz, Stuttgart (1877).
- Edmund Groag,Arthur Stein,Leiva Petersen,and Klaus Wachtel,Prosopographia Imperii Romani(The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, Second Edition, abbreviatedPIR2), Berlin (1933–2015).
- T. Robert S. Broughton,The Magistrates of the Roman Republic,American Philological Association (1952–1986).
- Avner Rabban and Kenneth G. Holum,Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia,E. J. Brill (1996).