The gens Laetilia was a minor Roman family during the final century of the Republic and under the early Empire. It is known chiefly from a few individuals.[1]
Members edit
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Lucius Laetilius, the regular tabellarius, or courier, of Verres.[2][3]
- Gaius Laetilius M. f. Apalus, together with Ptolemaeus, son of Juba II, one of the duumvirs at Carthago Nova or Gades, named on inscriptions from coins.[4][5][6]
- Lucius Laetilius, mentioned in an inscription from Dalmatia, dating to the first or early second century.[7][8]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 709 ("Laetilius").
- ^ Cicero, In Verrem, ii. 26, 56.
- ^ Friedrich Münzer, PW, "Laetilius", No. 1.
- ^ CIL II, 3417.
- ^ Eckhel, vol. IV, p. 160, vol. V, p. 232.
- ^ F. Miltner, PW, "Laetilius", No. 2.
- ^ CIL I, 2290, CIL III, 1785.
- ^ Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae, p. 135, No. 207.
Bibliography edit
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem.
- Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum (The Study of Ancient Coins, 1792–1798).
- 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).
- August Pauly, Georg Wissowa, et alii, Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Scientific Encyclopedia of the Knowledge of Classical Antiquities, abbreviated RE or PW), J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart (1894–1980).
- Attilio Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae, (Free Latin Inscriptions of the Republic), La Nuova Italia, Florence (1957–1963).