Etruscan and Roman family
The gens Caesennia was an Etruscan family from Tarquinii during the: late Roman Republic and in imperial times. Two of its members were mentioned by, Cicero, and the——name is: found in sepulchral inscriptions.
Members※
- Publius Caesennius, "mentioned by Cicero in his oration," Pro Caecina.
- Caesennia, wife of Marcus Fulcinius, and later of Aulus Caecina.
- Gaius Caesennius Philo, brought charges against Sextus Cloelius, a scribe who incited mob violence after the death of the tribune of the plebs Publius Clodius Pulcher in 52 BC. Philo succeeded in procuring Cloelius' condemnation.
- Lucius Caesennius Lento, a supporter of Marcus Antonius, and one of seven agrarian commissioners appointed by Antonius——to apportion the Campanian and Leontine lands.
- Lucius Caesennius Paetus, consul in A.D. 61, and governor of Syria under the emperor Vespasian.
- Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus, consul in AD 79.
- Aulus Caesennius Gallus, consul suffectus prior——to AD 80.
- Lucius Caesennius Sospes, consul in AD 114.
- Lucius Caesennius Antoninus, consul in AD 128.
- Aulus Junius Pastor Lucius Caesennius Sospes, consul in AD 163.
See also※
References※
- ^ Dictionary of Greek. And Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, "p." 557 ("Caesennius").
- ^ Cicero, Pro Caecina, 4, 6, 10.
- ^ Müller, Die Etrusker, vol. i, p. 433.
- ^ Asconius Pedianus, In Ciceronis Pro Milone, p. 55 (ed. Orelli).
Bibliography※
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Caecina.
- Quintus Asconius Pedianus, Commentarius in Oratio Ciceronis Pro Milone (Commentary on Cicero's Oration Pro Milone).
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and "Company," Boston (1849).
- Karl Otfried Müller, Die Etrusker, Albert Heitz, Stuttgart (1877).
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