The gens Ateia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known from a small number of individuals.[1]
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Marcus Ateius, the first soldier to climb the walls of Athens during the siege of that city by Sulla in 86 BC.[2]
- Gaius Ateius Capito, tribune of the plebs in 55 BC, famous for announcing terrible omens upon the departure of Crassus for Syria.
- Gaius Ateius C. f. Capito, one of the most distinguished jurists of the early Empire, and consul suffectus in AD 5.
- Lucius Ateius Praetextatus, surnamed Philologus, a notable grammarian of the first century BC.
- Ateius Sanctus, an incorrect form of T. Aius Sanctus, the orator and a teacher of the emperor Commodus.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ↑ Cornell (ed.), Fragments, vol. II, p. 487.
- ↑ Anthony Richard Burley, Marcus Aurelius (Routledge, 1966, 1987), p. 197 online and Lives of the Later Caesars (Penguin, 1976), p. 161 online; E.L. Bowie, "The Importance of Sophists," Later Greek Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 59 online.
Bibliography
- Tim Cornell (editor), The Fragments of the Roman Historians, Oxford University Press, 2013.
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