Cania (gens)
The gens Cania was a Roman family during the late Republic and in imperial times. None of its members obtained any important magistracies.
Members
- Gaius Canius, an eques who defended Publius Rutilius Rufus, when he was accused by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus in 107 B.C. Cicero relates an amusing tale of how Canius was taken in by a banker at Syracuse, of the name of Pythius, in the purchase of some property.[1]
- Julius Canius, a first century Stoic philosopher, martyred in the reign of Caligula, and mentioned in Boethius.[2]
- Canius Rufus, a Roman poet at Gades, to whom Martial has addressed one of his epigrams.[3]
- Saint Canius, also known as San Canio, bishop of Aceruntia during the third century.
gollark: You can read *fiction* or something, instead of... communist propaganda.
gollark: I don't think "you need to experience it" is a very good argument, though, inasmuch as I really wouldn't want to experience some political systems I'm pretty sure would go badly.
gollark: Also, people seem to be inconsistent on what it actually is.
gollark: Which will *hopefully* go away after this, but I kind of doubt it.
gollark: Crises are always an excuse for governments to grab power. We got ridiculous privacy invasion and useless airport security after 9/11 and whatnot, and governments now are declaring bucketloads of emergency powers.
See also
References
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Oratore, ii. 69, De Officiis, iii. 14.
- Boethius. "Canius (Julius Canius [or Canus, or Kanus])". The Consolation of Philosophy. Translated by Joel C. Relihan. p. 205.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams, iii. 20.
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