Gargonia (gens)
The gens Gargonia was a minor Roman family during first and second centuries BC. Some of the gens were of equestrian rank, but none appear to have held any curule magistracies.[1]
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Quintus Gargonius, the former master of Aulus Gargonius.[2]
- Aulus Gargonius Q. l., a freedman whose name appears in a list of foremen who built a wall and parapet for Ceres at Capua in 106 BC.[2]
- Gaius Gargonius, triumvir monetalis in 86 BC.
- Gaius Gargonius, an eques of little education, but a clear and intelligent speaker, according to Cicero.[3]
- Gaius Gargonius, ridiculed by Horace in the Satires. Found as "Gorgonius" in some manuscripts.[4]
- Gargonius, a rhetorician mentioned by Seneca the Elder.[5]
- Gnaeus Gargonius Paullinus, buried along the Via Flaminia at Fulginium.[6]
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See also
References
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 231.
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. I, band 2, no. 677.
- Cicero, Brutus, 48.
- Horace, Satirae, i. 2, 27, 4.92.
- Seneca the Elder, Controversiae i. 7, iv. 24, Suasoriae 7.
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. V, no. 784.
Bibliography
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus.
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Satirae (Satires).
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder), Controversiae and Susasoriae.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
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