From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Acutia (gens)
Acutia (gens)
The gens Acutia was a plebeian family at Rome, from the
early Republic to imperial times. The first member of this
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gens to achieve prominence was Marcus Acutius, tribune List of Roman gentes
of the plebs in 401 B.C.[1][2]
References
Praenomina used by the gens [1] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and
The Acutii are known to have used the praenomina Marcus Mythology, William Smith, Editor
and Quintus.[3][4] [2] Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, v. 10.
[3] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and
Mythology, William Smith, Editor
Branches and cognomina of the [4] Fasti Capitolini.
gens [5] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and
Mythology, William Smith, Editor
The earliest Acutii are found without a cognomen. In the [6] Fasti Capitolini.
1st century AD, the surname Nerva is found.[5][6] [7] Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, v. 10.
[8] Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, vi. 47.
Members of the gens [9] Fasti Capitolini.
[10] Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae, ii. 12.
• Marcus Acutius, tribunus plebis in 401 B.C., was
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dic-
elected by the other tribunes (by co-optation) in
tionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by
violation of the lex Trebonia.[7]
William Smith (1870).
• Acutia, wife of Publius Vitellius, whose nephew
Aulus Vitellius became emperor in A.D. 69.[8]
• Quintus Acutius Nerva, consul suffectus in A.D.
100.[9][10]
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• Prosopography of Ancient Rome
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