The gens Cluvia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, known from the later Republic, and early imperial times. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Cluvius Saxula, praetor in 175 and 173 BC.[1]

Origin

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The Cluvii were of Campanian origin. The earliest member of the family appearing in history was Faucula Cluvia, a courtesan at Capua during the Second Punic War.[2][1]

Praenomina

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The praenomina used by the Cluvii of the Republic included Gaius, Spurius, Marcus, Manius, and Aulus. Publius appears amongst the Cluvii of imperial times.

Branches and cognomina

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The Cluvii do not appear to have been divided into distinct families. Individual members of the gens bore the personal cognomina Saxula, a diminutive of saxa, a rock, and Rufus, a common surname usually given to persons with red hair.[3][4][1]

Members

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

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 807 ("Faucula Cluvia", "Cluvius").
  2. ^ a b Livy, xxvi. 33, 34.
  3. ^ Chase, pp. 110, 113.
  4. ^ Cassell's Latin & English Dictionary.
  5. ^ Livy, xli. 22, 33, xlii. 1.
  6. ^ Livy, xlii. 9, 10.
  7. ^ Livy, xliv. 40.
  8. ^ Cicero, Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo, xiv. 14–16.
  9. ^ Josephus, Antiquitates Judaïcae, xiv. 229, 238.
  10. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, vi. 2, xiii. 46, xiv. 9, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 56.
  11. ^ a b NSA 1893, 264.
  12. ^ a b EDR 148242
  13. ^ a b CIL X, 2307.
  14. ^ a b CIL X, 2305
  15. ^ Cassius Dio, lii. 42.
  16. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 7.
  17. ^ Orelli, Inscriptionum Latinarum Selectarum Collectio n. 4859.
  18. ^ CIL X, 1233.
  19. ^ Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Gaius", pp. 68 ff.
  20. ^ Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, ii. 1.
  21. ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Nero", 21.
  22. ^ Cassius Dio, lxiii. 14.
  23. ^ Tacitus, Annales, xiii. 20, xiv. 2, Historiae, i. 18, ii. 65, iv. 43.
  24. ^ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, ix. 19. § 5.
  25. ^ Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", p. 423.
  26. ^ Fasti Septempedani, AE 1998, 419; 2007, 106.
  27. ^ CIL XVI, 26.
  28. ^ Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", pp. 189, 197, 215.
  29. ^ Fasti Ostienses, CIL XIV, 244.
  30. ^ Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regierungszeit des Antoninus Pius", p. 76.

Bibliography

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