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Bruttia (gens)
The gens Bruttia was a Roman family during the late • Bruttius, a philologer, with whom the younger
Republic and into imperial times. None of the gens ob- Marcus Tullius Cicero studied at Athens in 44 BC.[7]
tained any important magistracies until the latter half of • Quintus Bruttius Balbus, a candidate for duumvir at
the 1st century AD, when Lucius Bruttius Maximus was Pompeii, mentioned in a political graffito.[8]
proconsul in Cyprus. • Lucius Bruttius Maximus, proconsul of Cyprus in AD
80.
Origin of the gens • Gaius Bruttius L. f. Praesens Lucius Fulvius Rusticus,
consul in AD 139.
The nomen Bruttius probably indicates that the ancestors • Lucius Fulvius Gaius Bruttius C. f. L. n. Praesens
of the gens were from Bruttium, the southernmost region Laberius Maximus, consul in AD 153 and 180.
of Italia. The Bruttii were an Oscan people descended • Bruttia C. f. C. n. Crispina, Roman empress, the wife
from the Lucani, from whom they asserted their inde- of Commodus.
pendence during the 4th century BC. The name of Bruttii, • Lucius Bruttius C. f. C. n. Quinctius Crispinus, consul
which they adopted for themselves, may be a pre-Sabellic in AD 187.
name meaning "runaways".[1][2][3][4] • Gaius Bruttius Praesens, consul in AD 217.[9]
• Lucius Bruttius Quinctius Crispinus, consul in AD
Praenomina used by the gens 224, and afterwards persuaded the city of Aquileia to
resist Maximinus.
The praenomina used by the Bruttii are Lucius, Gaius, and • (Bruttius) Praesens, consul in AD 246.[5]
Quintus.
See also
Branches and cognomina of the List of Roman gentes
gens
No distinct families of the Bruttii appear under the References
Republic, during which the only cognomen is Sura. A num-
[1] Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, xvi. 15.
ber of surnames occur in imperial times, of which all but
[2] Strabo, Geographica, vi. 253 ff.
Balbus appear to belong to the same family. The others
[3] Marcus Junianus Justinus, Historiarum Philippicarum
were Maximus, Praesens, and Crispinus. This family came
libri XLIV, xxiii. 1.
from Volceii, in Lucania, and seems to have made a habit
[4] Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1970).
of adopting names from the female line. The combination
[5] ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and
of Quinctius or Quintius Crispinus probably asserts the fam-
Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
ily’s descent from the ancient patrician house of the
[6] Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii.
Quinctii Crispini.[5]
38.
[7] Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xvi.
Members of the gens 21.
[8] Walls of Pompeii
• Bruttius Sura, legate of Gaius Sentius Saturninus,
[9] Fasti Capitolini.
praetor in Macedonia (Roman province) in 88 BC.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dic-
• Bruttius, an eques, for whom Cicero wrote a letter of
tionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by
introduction to Manius Acilius Glabrio, proconsul in
William Smith (1870).
Sicilia in 46 BC.[6]
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