Bucculeia (gens)

The gens Bucculeia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Marcus Bucculeius, a legal scholar, mentioned in a humorous anecdote of Cicero, and attributed by him to the orator Lucius Licinius Crassus.[1][2]

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

  1. ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Oratore, i. 39.
  2. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.


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