Caerellia gens

The gens Caerellia was a minor plebeian family during the late Roman Republic and in imperial times. Few members of this gens occur in history. Caerellia was a learned and wealthy friend of Cicero. ^[1] Various Caerellii are known from epigraphy, including Caerellius Priscus, governor of Roman Britain in the late second century.

Members

• Caerellia, a wealthy contemporary of Cicero, whose philosophical writings she studied, and with whom she became intimately acquainted. Quintus Fufius Calenus accused them of having carried on an affair. ^{[2] [3] [4] [1]}
• Caerellius Priscus, governor of various provinces, including Britain, was consul suffectus around AD 172.
• Gaius Caerellius Sabinus, legate of the Legio XIII Gemina, according to an inscription from Apulum in Dacia, dating between AD 183 and 185. ^[5]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. Leonhard Schmitz, "Caerellia", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 535, 536.
2. Cicero, Ad Familiares, xiii. 72; Ad Atticum, xii. 51, xiii. 21, 22, xiv. 19, xv. 1, 26.
3. Cassius Dio, Roman History, xlvi. 18.
4. Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, vi. 3. § 112.
5. CIL III, 1092.

Bibliography

• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum , Epistulae ad Familiares .
• Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory).
• Lucius Cassius Dio, Roman History.
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).