The gens Ateia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known from a small number of individuals, of whom the most illustrious was the jurist Gaius Ateius Capito, consul in AD 5.[1]

Praenomina

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The only praenomina associated with the Ateii mentioned by Roman writers are Lucius, Gaius, and Marcus, the three most common names at all periods of Roman history.

Members

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This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ This filiation from the Fasti Capitolini. Historians have traditionally supposed him to be the son of Gaius Ateius Capito, tribune of the plebs in 55 BC.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Capito, C. Ateius", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 599–602.
  2. ^ Cornell (ed.), Fragments, vol. II, p. 487.
  3. ^ Cassius Dio, xxxix. 34.
  4. ^ Tacitus, Annales, iii. 45.
  5. ^ Cicero, Ad Familiares, xiii. 29, De Divinatione, i. 16.
  6. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, ii. 18, v. 33, 50.
  7. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Crassus", 19.
  8. ^ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 216, 332, 373, 381.
  9. ^ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 236, 246.
  10. ^ Broughton, vol. II, p. 392.
  11. ^ Tacitus, Annales, ii. 47.
  12. ^ Birley, Marcus Aurelius, p. 197; Lives of the Later Caesars p. 161.
  13. ^ Bowie, "The Importance of Sophists" , p. 59.

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