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Laelia gens

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The gens Laelia was a plebeian family at Rome. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Laelius in 190 BC.[1]

Branches and cognomina

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The only family name of the Laelii was Balbus, a common cognomen, referring to one who stammers. A few of the Laelii used personal surnames, such as Sapiens ("wise"), by which the Laelius who was a friend of the younger Scipio Africanus was sometimes known.[1][2][3]

Members

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

Early Laelii

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  • Gaius Laelius, grandfather of Gaius Laelius, consul in 190 BC.
  • Gaius Laelius C. f., the father of Gaius Laelius, consul in 190 BC.
  • Gaius Laelius C. f. C. n., consul in 190 BC, was a friend of the elder Scipio Africanus, to whom he acted as legate throughout the Second Punic War. After his consulship, he helped colonize the territory of the Boii. He was appointed to several other commissions and embassies through 170.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
  • Gaius Laelius C. f. C. n. Sapiens, consul in BC 140, and a close friend of the younger Scipio Africanus. He initially favoured agrarian reform, but after meeting resistance abandoned the effort, and opposed the efforts of the Gracchi, leading his aristocratic contemporaries to call him Sapiens, "the wise". He was erudite and refined, but a less persuasive speaker than some of his contemporaries.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
  • Laelia C. f. C. n. Major, married Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the augur. Laelia was renowned for her graceful and eloquent speech, dignified and sincere, upon which Cicero remarked, and which she passed down to her daughters, as well as her son-in-law, the orator Lucius Licinius Crassus.[20]
  • Laelia C. f. C. n. Minor, married Gaius Fannius Strabo.[21]

Laelii Balbi

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Others

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  • Decimus Laelius, mentioned in the Gracchan period, perhaps an ancestor of the Laelii Balbi.
  • Lucius Laelius, mentioned in an inscription dating from about 88 BC.
  • Publius Laelius L. f, mentioned in an inscription dating from about 88 BC.
  • Lucius Laelius, mentioned in an inscription from Pergamum, dating from the late Republic.
  • Lucius Laelius L. f., mentioned in an inscription from Pergamum, dating from the late Republic.
  • Laelia, wife of Gaius Vibius Marsus.
  • Laelius Felix, a jurist in the time of Hadrian.[37]
  • Lucius Laelius Fuscus, a second-century soldier.
  • Laelius Bassus, a proconsul or legate under Septimius Severus.
  • Marcus Laelius Maximus Aemilianus, consul in 227 AD.

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Lauro was just north of Baetulo, modern Badalona.

References

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  1. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 704 ("Laelia Gens").
  2. ^ Chase, p. 110.
  3. ^ The New College Latin & English Dictionary, "sapiens".
  4. ^ Polybius, x. 3, 9, 18, 19, 37, 39, xi. 24, 32, 33, xiv. 4, 9, xv. 9, 12, 14.
  5. ^ Velleius Paterculus, ii. 127.
  6. ^ Livy, xxvi. 42, 48, 51, xxvii. 7, 18, xxviii. 17–19, 20, 23, 30, 33, 38, xxix. 1, 4, 6, 24–27, xxx. 3–6, 9, 11–17, 22, 25, 33–35, 40, xxxiii. 24, 26, xxxv. 10, xxvi. 45, xxxvii. 1, 47, 50, xli. 22.
  7. ^ Appian, Hispanica, 20, 25, 26, 29; Punica, 26–28, 41, 44.
  8. ^ Cicero, Philippicae, xi. 7.
  9. ^ Zonaras, ix. 13.
  10. ^ Frontinus, Strategemata, i. 1. § 3, i. 2. §. 1, ii. 3. § 16.
  11. ^ Velleius Paterculus, ii. 127.
  12. ^ Valerius Maximus, iv. 7. § 7.
  13. ^ Cicero, Laelius sive de Amicitia, 8, 11, 25; Brutus, 21, 22, 24, 43; Tusculanae Quaestiones, iv. 3, v. 19; De Officiis, i. 26, 30, ii. 11; De Finibus, ii. 8; Epistulae ad Atticum, vii. 3; Philippicae, ii. 33, De Natura Deorum, iii. 2, 17; De Oratore, ii. 6, 7, iii. 7. § 28; De Republica, i. 39; vi. 2; Topica, 20. § 78.
  14. ^ Plutarch, Regum et Imperatorium Apophthegmata, p. 200; "The Life of Tiberius Gracchus", 8.
  15. ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Terentius", 2.
  16. ^ Horace, Satirae, ii. 1, 65–74.
  17. ^ Livy, Epitome, lix.
  18. ^ Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 11, 104; Naturales Quaestiones, vi. 32.
  19. ^ Aulus Gellius, vii. 14.
  20. ^ Cicero, Brutus, 58. § 111, De Oratore, iii. 12. § 44.
  21. ^ Cicero, Brutus, 26. § 101.
  22. ^ Scholia Bobiensa, Pro Flacco, p. 235 (ed. Orelli).
  23. ^ Frontinus, Strategemata, ii. 5. § 31.
  24. ^ Obsequens, 119.
  25. ^ Cicero, De Oratore, ii. 6.
  26. ^ Cicero, Pro Flacco, 1. 6; Epistulae ad Atticum, 11, n. 12. A., xi. 7, 14.
  27. ^ Scholia Bobiensa, Pro Flacco, p. 228 (ed. Orelli).
  28. ^ Caesar, The Civil War, iii. 5, 40, 100.
  29. ^ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 361, 362.
  30. ^ Shackleton-Bailey, Cicero: Letters to Atticus, vol. 4, p. 344.
  31. ^ Fasti Capitolini.
  32. ^ Cassius Dio, lv. 9.
  33. ^ Tacitus, Annales, vi. 47, 48.
  34. ^ Fasti Teanenses, AE 1905, 192; 1909, 78; 1939, 172; 2008, 385.
  35. ^ Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", pp. 408, 414, 425.
  36. ^ Tacitus, Annales, xv. 22.
  37. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 143 ("Laelius Felix").

Bibliography

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