Auria (gens)
The gens Auria was a Roman family at Larinum in southern Italy, known chiefly from Cicero's oration, Pro Cluentio.[1][2]
Members of the gens
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Marcus Aurius, taken prisoner at the Battle of Asculum during the Social War, in 89 B.C., and subsequently murdered by Statius Albius Oppianicus.[5]
- Numerius Aurius, predeceased his brother, Marcus.[6]
- Auria, wife of Gaius Albius Oppianicus, murdered, together with her husband, by his brother, Statius.[7]
- Aulus Aurius Melinus, threatened to prosecute Oppianicus, but later proscribed and put to death by him.[8]
- Gaius Aurius A. f., proscribed and put to death by Oppianicus.[9]
- Auria A. f., daughter-in-law of Oppianicus.[10]
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See also
Footnotes
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 7, 8.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 7.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 11.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 5, 8, 9, 26.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 8.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 32.
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