Cosconia (gens)

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 used

The praenomina associated with the Cosconii are Marcus, Gaius, and Lucius.^[1]

Members of the gens

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

• Marcus Cosconius, military tribune in the army of the praetor Publius Quinctilius Varus, fell in the battle fought with Mago in the land of the Insubrian Gauls, 203 BC.^[2]
• Marcus Cosconius (M. n.?), praetor in 135 BC, fought successfully with the Scordisci in Thrace.^[3]
• Lucius Cosconius M. f., Triumvir Monetalis circa 92 BC (Eckhel) or 118 BC (Crawford).^[4][5][1]
• Gaius Cosconius, praetor during the Social War, where he had considerable success as a general. Probably the same Gaius Cosconius who later concluded the war in Illyricum as proconsul about 78 BC.^[6][7][8][9]
• Gaius Cosconius Calidianus, adopted from the Calidia gens, was an orator of little merit, distinguished for his vehement action and gesticulation.^[10]
• Gaius Cosconius, praetor in 63 BC, and subsequently granted the title of proconsul in Hispania Ulterior. Accused of extortion, but acquitted. Appointed in 59 by Caesar to a commission to divide the public lands in Campania, he died. Cicero declined Caesar's offer to replace him.^[11]
• Gaius Cosconius, tribune of the plebs in 59 BC, aedile in 57, and one of the judges of Publius Sextius in 56.^[12][13]
• Cosconius, a writer of epigrams during the time of Martialis, whom he attacked on account of the length of his epigrams and their lascivious nature. He is severely handled in two epigrams of Martial.^[14]
• Cosconius, the author of a grammar and a work on "actiones."^[15]

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, xxx. 18.
3. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Epitome, 56.
4. Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum, v. p. 196.
5. Michael Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, v. I. p. 298-299.
6. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Epitome, 75.
7. Appianus, Bellum Civile, i. 52.
8. Eutropius, Breviarium historiae Romanae, vi. 4.
9. Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII, v. 23.
10. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus, 69.
11. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Sulla, 14; In Vatinium Testem, 5.
12. Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Vatinium Testem, 7; Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem, ii. 6.
13. Plutarchus, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Caesar, 51.
14. Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams, ii. 77; iii. 69.
15. Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina libri XXV, vi. 36, 89 (ed. Müller).

 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.