Acutia (gens)

The gens Acutia was a plebeian family at Rome, from the early Republic to imperial times. The first member of this gens to achieve prominence was Marcus Acutius, tribune of the plebs in 401 B.C.^[1][2]

Praenomina

The Acutii are known to have used the praenomina Marcus and Quintus.^[3][4]

Branches and cognomina

The earliest Acutii are found without a cognomen. In the first century AD, the surname Nerva is found.^[5][6]

Members

• Marcus Acutius, tribune of the plebs in 401 BC, was elected by the other tribunes (by co-optation) in violation of the lex Trebonia.^[7]
• Acutia, wife of Publius Vitellius, whose nephew Aulus Vitellius became emperor in AD 69.^[8]
• Quintus Acutius Nerva, suffect consul in AD 100.^[9][10]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
2. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, v. 10.
3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
4. Fasti Capitolini.
5. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
6. Fasti Capitolini.
7. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, v. 10.
8. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, vi. 47.
9. Fasti Capitolini.
10. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae, ii. 12.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.