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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 231.
  2. 1 2 Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. I, band 2, no. 677.
  3. ↑ Cicero, Brutus, 48.
  4. ↑ Horace, Satirae, i. 2, 27, 4.92.
  5. ↑ Seneca the Elder, Controversiae i. 7, iv. 24, Suasoriae 7.
  6. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. V, no. 784.

Bibliography


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