Plaguleia gens

The gens Plaguleia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only one member of this gens is mentioned by ancient writers, although a few others are known from inscriptions.^[1]

Origin[]

The nomen Plaguleius belongs to a large class of names ending in -eius, which is typically, although not exclusively of Oscan derivation.^[2] The only similar word in Latin seems to be plagulus, a curtain, suggesting that the nomen could possibly be occupational, referring to a curtain-maker, although that would more regularly be plagularius.^[3]

Members[]

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

• Plaguleius, a partisan of Publius Clodius Pulcher.^[4]
• Gaius Plaguleius Ampliatus, built a tomb at Rome for his mother, Claudia Psyche, and his wife, Julia Hermione.^[5]
• Gaius Plaguleius C. l. Fortunatus, a freedman buried at Rome between AD 1 and 30.^[6]
• Plaguleia Glaphyra, buried at Rome, in a tomb built by Lucius Licinius Anteros.^[7]
• Plaguleia A. (f.?) Prima, buried at Rome.^[8]
• Gaius Plaguleius Ɔ l. Trophimus, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome.^[9]

See also[]

• List of Roman gentes

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Domo Sua.
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
• George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897).
• John C. Traupman, The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Bantam Books, New York (1995).