Ogulnia gens

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The gens Ogulnia was an ancient plebeian family at ancient Rome. The gens first came to prominence at the beginning of the third century BC, when the brothers Quintus and Gnaeus Ogulnius, tribunes of the plebs, carried a law opening most of the Roman priesthoods to the plebeians. The only member of the family to obtain the consulship was Quintus Ogulnius Gallus in 269 BC. However, Ogulnii are still found in imperial times. [1]

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Praenomina

The only praenomina known to have been used by the early Ogulnii were Quintus, Gnaeus, Lucius , and Marcus , although in a filiation from the Fasti Capitolini the ancestor of the Ogulnii Galli may have been named Aulus . [2] The later Ogulnii used all of these, as well as Numerius , and there are examples of Publius and Titus as well.

Branches and cognomina

The only cognomen of the Ogulnii under the Republic is Gallus, which signified a cockerel, or a Gaul. The other Ogulnii mentioned in history had no surnames. [1] [3]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
Didrachm minted in Rome between 269 and 266 BC. Hercules is pictured on the obverse, while the reverse features the statue of the She-wolf suckling Twins erected by Quintus and Gnaeus Ogulnius during their aedileship in 296 BC. AR Didrachm 85000739.jpg
Didrachm minted in Rome between 269 and 266 BC. Hercules is pictured on the obverse, while the reverse features the statue of the She-wolf suckling Twins erected by Quintus and Gnaeus Ogulnius during their aedileship in 296 BC.

Early Ogulnii

Others

See also

Footnotes

  1. Broughton considers the ambassador of 273 to be the same as the consul of 269.
  2. Following the Fasti Capitolini, Broughton gives Aulus as the name of the consul's grandfather.

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References

  1. 1 2 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 19 ("Ogulnia Gens").
  2. Broughton, vol. I, pp. 199.
  3. Chase, p. 114.
  4. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, pp. 137, 714.
  5. 1 2 Livy, x. 6–9, x. 23, Epitome 11.
  6. Valerius Maximus, i. 8. § 2, iv. 3. § 9.
  7. Aurelius Victor, De Viris Illustribus, 22.
  8. Orosius, iii. 22.
  9. Ovid, Metamorphoses, xv. 622 ff.
  10. Justin, xviii. 3.
  11. Cassius Dio, Fragmentum, 147, with note of Fabricius.
  12. Broughton, vol. I, pp. 172, 176, 182, 197, 199.
  13. Broughton, vol. I, pp. 172, 176.
  14. Broughton, vol. I, p. 199.
  15. Eutropius, ii. 16.
  16. Livy, Epitome, 15.
  17. Pliny the Elder, xxxiii. 13.
  18. Broughton, vol. I, pp. 199, 207.
  19. Livy, xxvii. 3.
  20. Broughton, vol. I, p. 281.
  21. Livy, xxxiii. 36.
  22. Broughton, vol. I, p. 337.
  23. Livy, lx. 56, xl. 16.
  24. Broughton, vol. I, p. 382.
  25. Juvenal, 6. 354.
  26. 1 2 PIR, vol. II, p. 432.
  27. Philippae, 382.
  28. CIL VI, 14288.
  29. 1 2 3 CIL VI, 23406.
  30. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 CIL XIV, 3979.
  31. CIL VI, 23407.
  32. 1 2 CIL VI, 4996.
  33. 1 2 CIL VI, 23410.
  34. 1 2 CIL VI, 23409.
  35. 1 2 CIL XII, 4700.
  36. ZPE, 125-252.
  37. CIL XIV, 1423.
  38. CIL VI, 28645.
  39. CIL X, 6046.
  40. CIL VI, 12564.
  41. 1 2 CIL VI, 23431.
  42. 1 2 CIL VI, 23412.
  43. CIL VI, 23413.
  44. 1 2 CIL VI, 23430.
  45. 1 2 CIL VI, 23414.
  46. CIL VI, 23415.
  47. CIL VI, 23416.
  48. 1 2 CIL VI, 23417.
  49. CIL VI, 38690.
  50. CIL VI, 23420.
  51. CIL VI, 23421.
  52. CIL VI, 4632.
  53. CIL VI, 23423.
  54. CIL III, 215.

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