Cosconia gens

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The gens Cosconia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned in the Second Punic War, but none ever obtained the honours of the consulship; the first who held a curule office was Marcus Cosconius, praetor in 135 BC.[1]

Praenomina

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The praenomina associated with the Cosconii are Marcus, Gaius, and Lucius.

Members

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 863 ("Cosconia Gens").
  2. ^ Livy, xxx. 18.
  3. ^ Livy, Epitome, 56.
  4. ^ Sherk, "Senatus Consultum De Agro Pergameno", p. 367.
  5. ^ Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum, v. p. 196.
  6. ^ Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, vol. I, pp. 298, 299.
  7. ^ Livy, Epitome, 75.
  8. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, i. 52.
  9. ^ Eutropius, vi. 4.
  10. ^ Orosius, v. 23.
  11. ^ Cicero, Brutus, 69.
  12. ^ Cicero, Pro Sulla, 14; In Vatinium Testem, 5.
  13. ^ Cicero, In Vatinium Testem, 7; Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem, ii. 6.
  14. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Caesar", 51.
  15. ^ Adams, "The Consular Brothers of Sejanus", p. 75.
  16. ^ Martial, Epigrams, ii. 77; iii. 69.
  17. ^ Varro, De Lingua Latina, vi. 36, 89 (ed. Müller).

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