Caerellia gens
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Leonhard Schmitz, "Caerellia", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 535, 536.
- ^ Cicero, Ad Familiares, xiii. 72; Ad Atticum, xii. 51, xiii. 21, 22, xiv. 19, xv. 1, 26.
- ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History, xlvi. 18.
- ^ Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, vi. 3. § 112.
- ^ CIL III, 1092.
Bibliography
[edit]- 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).