Bellicia gens

The gens Bellicia, also spelled Vellicia and Bellica, was an aristocratic plebeian family at ancient Rome, which flourished during the first and second centuries. The Bellicii rose to prominence from Gallia Narbonensis, attaining senatorial status with Gaius Bellicius Natalis, who was appointed consul suffectus in AD 68.

Members

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

• Gaius Bellicius Natalis, consul suffectus in AD 68.[1][2]
• Gaius Bellicius C. f. Natalis Gavidius Tebanianus, son of Gaius Bellicius Natalis, the consul of 68, was consul suffectus in AD 87, serving from the Kalends of May to the Kalends of September.[3][4]
• Tiberius Claudius Tib. f. Augustanus Lucius Bellicius Sollers, a distinguished soldier, had been prefect of the ala Gallica, military tribune with the Legio II Augusta, and prefect of a cohors of the Praetorian Guard, and had been awarded dona militaria for service in Germany. Later adlected into the Senate, advanced to praetor, and consul suffectus prior to AD 118.[5][6]
• Bellicius Tebanianus, consul suffectus in AD 118.[7]
• Gaius Bellicius C. f. C. n. Flaccus Torquatus Tebanianus, son of Gaius Bellicius Tebanianus, the consul of 87, was consul suffectus in AD 124.[8][9]
• Gaius Bellicius C. f. C. n. Flaccus Torquatus, son of Gaius Bellicius Flaccus Tebanianus, the consul of 124, was consul in AD 143.[10]
• Gaius Bellicius C. f. C. n. Calpurnius Torquatus, the son of Tebanianus, and brother of Flaccus Torquatus, the consul of 143, was consul in AD 148.[11]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. AE 1985, 770.
2. Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Nero", pp. 292 ff, 311.
3. Fasti Potentini, AE 1949, 23; 2003, 588; 2005, 457.
4. Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70–96", pp. 190, 217.
5. Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, v. 4.
6. CIL V, 3337, CIL V, 3338 = ILS 1031, CIL V, 3356 = ILS 2710, CIL III, 13250 = ILS 5968.
7. AE 1950, 00068, AE 2002, 1762.
8. CIL III, 7371, CIL XII, 169.
9. Oliver, "The Senatorial but Not Imperial Relatives of Calpurnia Arria", pp. 347–349.
10. AE 1940, 62.
11. Fasti Ostienses, CIL XIV, 244, AE 1906, 174.

Bibliography

• Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae (Letters).
• Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
• René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
• James H. Oliver, "The Senatorial but Not Imperial Relatives of Calpurnia Arria", in American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 55 (1951).
• Paul A. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", in Classical Quarterly, vol. 24, pp. 290–311 (1974); "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", in Classical Quarterly, vol. 31, pp. 186–220 (1981).