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    The gens Plautia, sometimes written Plotia, was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens first appear in history in the middle of the fourth...
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    affairs and the suspicion of murder. Urgulanilla was a member of the Plautia gens. She was of Etruscan descent. Her father was Marcus Plautius Silvanus...
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  • was a Roman senator of the first century and member of the influential Plautia gens. Plautius was the son of Quintus Plautius, consul in AD 36. He was nephew...
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  • The gens Urgulania was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, of whom the most prominent was Urgulania...
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  • The gens Quinctilia, also written Quintilia, was a patrician family at ancient Rome, dating from the earliest period of Roman history, and continuing well...
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  • Look up gens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals...
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    accounts baptized by Saint Peter and saw the martyrdom of Saint Paul. Plautia gens List of early Christian saints (in Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Πλατίλλα ἡ Ρωμαία. 20...
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  • Silvanus Aelianus Urgulania Bellum Batonianum or Great Illyrian Revolt Plautia gens Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti...
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  • The gens Ceionia or gens Caeionia or the Caeionii family was an ancient Roman senatorial family of imperial times. The first member of the gens to obtain...
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    His mother is surmised to have been an undocumented Roman woman named Plautia. The Historia Augusta states that his maternal grandfather and his maternal...
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    Aelius Lamia and the adopted son of Marcus Plautius Silvanus, brother of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of the emperor Claudius. It is known he offered...
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    younger') (AD 4  – AD 27) was a Roman senator. Varus was a member of the gens Quinctilia. He was the only child born to the Roman general and politician...
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  • Fabia reveals that her father was related to the gens Fabia. However, whom she was named after from the gens Fabia is unknown. Fabia was born and raised in...
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  • for the sponsoring legislator and designated by the adjectival form of his gens name (nomen gentilicum), in the feminine form because the noun lex (plural...
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    Around the start of the Common Era, the family trees of the gens Julia and the gens Claudia became intertwined into the Julio-Claudian family tree as...
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    name (nomen). A woman from the gens Aemilia would be called Aemilia; from the gens Cornelia, Cornelia; from the gens Sempronia, Sempronia; and so on...
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  • sister of Caesar Augustus and fourth wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony) Plautia Urgulanilla, Emperor Claudius' first wife Scribonia, second wife of Augustus...
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    connected him directly to the uprising, he was indicted under the lex Plautia de vi (public violence) in early November. The conspirators met, probably...
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  • Juliae) was an ancient Roman law that was introduced by any member of the gens Julia. Most often, "Julian laws", lex Julia or leges Juliae refer to moral...
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  • Gaius Plautius Proculus was the first member of the gens Plautia to achieve consular rank. Little is known of his life before becoming consul with Gaius...
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  • The gens Rusticelia, occasionally spelled Rusticellia, was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Hardly any members of this gens are mentioned in...
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  • possibly Ulpia Plotina, about 31 - before 86) was a noble Roman woman from the gens Ulpia settled in Spain during the 1st century CE. She was the paternal aunt...
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  • boosted by his marriage to Plautia Urgulanilla, whose grandmother Urgulania belonged to the originally Etruscan Urgulania gens. The Urgulanii were one of...
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  • sources. Some scholars of early Christianity have asserted that she was Plautia or Plautilla, the daughter of Aulus Plautius and Pomponia Graecina, possibly...
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    She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julia gens in AD 14. Livia was the daughter of the senator Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus...
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    biological father of emperor Trajan. Traianus belonged to a branch of the gens Ulpia, which originally came from the Umbrian city of Tuder, but he was born...
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    Marcia Furnilla came from a noble and distinguished family. She was from the gens Marcia who were of plebeian status, claiming descent from the Roman king...
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    Vistilia was a Roman matron of the gens Vistilia known by her contemporaries for having seven children by six different husbands; Pliny the Elder was more...
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    Seville in southern Spain, an Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his gens Ulpia came from the town of Tuder in the Umbria region of central Italy....
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  • emperors, known today as the Stoic Opposition. Soranus was a member of the gens Marcia; his father, Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus, had been a suffect consul...
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