Titinia gens

The gens Titinia was a plebeian family at Rome. It is mentioned as early as the time of the decemvirs, but it never attained much importance, and none of its members were raised to the consulship.[1]

Praenomina

The chief praenomina of the Titinii during the Republic were Marcus and Gaius. Other praenomina found among the Titinii are Publius, Lucius, Sextus, Gnaeus, and Quintus.

Members

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

• Marcus Titinius, tribune of the plebs 449 BC.[2]
• Sextus Titinius, tribune of the plebs 439 BC.[3]
• Lucius Titinius Pansa Saccus, consular tribune 400 BC, 396 BC.[4]
• Marcus C. f. C. n. Titinius, magister equitum in 302 BC to C. Junius Bulbucus.[5]
• Publius Titinius, legatus of the praetor in the war against the Gauls in 200 BC.[6]
• Publius Titinius Menas, a Roman citizen that brought the first barber to Rome.[7]
• Marcus Titinius, tribune of the plebs in 193 BC.[8]
• Gaius Titinius, tribune of the plebs in 193 BC.[9]
• Marcus Titinius Curvus, praetor urbanus in 178 BC. He levied troops at Rome in this year, and gave an audience of the Senate to Ti. Sempronius Gracchus and L. Postumius Albinus on their return from Spain.[10]
• Marcus Titinius, praetor in 178 BC assigned to Nearer Spain with the title of proconsul, and continued to govern it for four years, until 174 BC. In 171 BC he was accused of malversation in the province but was acquitted.[11]
• Gaius Titinius Gadaeus, one of the leaders of a slave revolt in Sicily; betrayed an important fort to the praetor Licinius Nerva in 103 BC.[12]
• Marcus Titinius, a legate of Licinius Nerva in the Servile War in Sicily who was defeated by the slaves.[13]
• Gaius Titinius, the husband of Fannia who concealed Marius in 88 BC.[14]
• Gnaeus Titinius, a distinguished Roman eques who resisted the tribune Marcus Livius Drusus in 91 BC.[15]
• Titinii are mentioned among the people of property proscribed by Sulla and murdered by Catiline in 81 BC.[16]
• Quintus Titinius, one of the judges at the trial of Verres in 70 BC, a brother of C. Fannius, a Roman eques.[17] This Titinius carried on the business of a moneylender, and as such Cicero had dealings with him. On the breaking out of the civil war in 49 BC, he espoused the cause of Pompey, but his son, who had been adopted by one Pontius, and who is therefore called Pontius Titinianus, sided with Caesar.[18]
• Titinius, a centurion in the army of Cassius at the battle of Philippi in 42 BC, was sent by his commander, after his defeat by Antony, to see how Brutus had fared; but as Titinius did not return so soon as was expected, Cassius, supposing all was lost, put an end to his own life. Titinius, on his arrival, killed himself over the body of Cassius, to atone for his involuntary error.[19][20][21]
• Titinius, legate of Octavianus in his war with Sextus Pompeius.[22]
• Gaius Titinius, a name that appears on coins who cannot be reliably connected to any of the above.
• Titinius, poet, earliest known composer of tabernariae, survived Terence, only fragments extant
• Gnaeus Octavius Titinius Capito, official and writer 2nd century

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Livy, iii.54
3. Livy, iv.16
4. Livy, v.12; v.18
5. Livy, x.1
6. Livy, xxxi.21
7. Kaufman, David B (March 21, 1932). "Roman Barbers". The Classical Weekly (25).
8. Livy, xxxv.8
9. Livy, xxxv.8
10. Livy, xl.59; xli.5-6
11. Livy, xli.15, 26; xliii.2
12. Diod.xxxvi
13. Diod. xxxvi
14. Val. Max. viii.2
15. Cic. pro Cluent. 56
16. Q. Cic. de Pet. Cons. c.2
17. Cic. Verr. i.49
18. Cic. ad Att. ii.4; v.21; vii.16; ix.6; ix.9, 18, 19.
19. Val. Max. ix.9
20. Appian BC iv.113
21. Plutarch, Brutus 43
22. Appian BC v.111

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