Catia (gens)

The Catii may have been of Vestinian origin; Gaius Catius, who served under Marcus Antonius, is said to have belonged to this ancient race.[1] However, members of the family were already at Rome by the time of the Second Punic War, when Quintus Catius was plebeian aedile.[2] The philosopher Catius was an Insuber, a native of Gallia Transpadana, and may have been a freedman of the gens, or perhaps his name arose by coincidence.[3] The nomen Catius itself may perhaps be related to a Roman divinity of that name, invoked for the purpose of granting children thoughtfulness and prudence.[3] The nomen Cattius, found in imperial times, may be a variation.[4]

• Quintus Catius, plebeian aedile in 210 BC, he served in the Second Punic War.[2]
• Gaius Catius, tribunus militum in the army of Marcus Antonius, in 43 BC.[1]
• Catius, an Epicurean philosopher, thought to have been an Insubrian Gaul; he may have been a freedman of the gens.[5][6][3]
• Catia, mentioned by the poet Horatius.[7]
• Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, an epic poet, and consul in AD 68, at the end of Nero's reign.[8][9][10]
• Catius Crispus, mentioned by the elder Seneca.[11]
• Tiberius Catius Caesius Fronto, the son or adopted son of Silius Italicus, he was consul suffectus ex Kal. Sept. in AD 96, shortly before the assassination of the emperor Domitian; he is supposed to be the same as the orator Catius Fronto, a contemporary of Vespasian, who defended Marius Priscus, Gaius Julius Bassus, and Varenus Rufus.[lower-roman 1][12][13][10]
• Catius Lepidus, a friend of the younger Pliny.[14]
• Catius Marcellus, consul suffectus in AD 153.[4]
• Publius Catius Sabinus, consul in AD 216, during the reign of Caracalla; this was his second consulship, but the year of his first is not known.[9][15][4]
• Sextus Catius Clementinus Priscillianus, consul in AD 230, under Severus Alexander.[9][4]
• Gaius Catius Clemens, possibly a brother of Priscillianus, was consul suffectus, probably around AD 235.[4]
• Lucius Catius Celer, possibly a brother of Priscillianus, was an imperial legate in the time of Gordian III. He had previously been consul suffectus, probably around AD 241.[9][4]
• Catia Clementina, according to an inscription, the wife of Iallius Bassus, and mother of Iallia Clementina.[16]

• List of Roman gentes

• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares.
• Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Satirae (Satires).
• Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome.
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder), Suasoriae (Rhetorical Exercises).
• Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory).
• Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae (Letters).
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
• John D. Grainger, Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis, A.D. 96-99, Psychology Press (2004).
• Inge Mennen, Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193–284, Brill (2011).