Gens:

ACCIUS

Created:

19th September 2010

Update:

3rd January 2022

Status Republic:

Patrician:

Pleb. Nobilis:

Senatorial:

Eques Romanus:

X

Local magistrate:

Republican Family / Cognomen

Patrician

n/a

Pleb. Nobilis

n/a

Senatorial

n/a

Equestrian

Paelignus?, Pisaurensis

Local magistrat.

n/a

Uncertain

no cognomen (the poet)

Imperial Family / Cognomen

Imperators

n/a

Consular

Asclepianus, Iulianus

Senatorial

Sura

Equestrian

n/a

Equestrian (mil)

n/a

Local magistrat.

Seneca

Uncertain

Secundus

Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors

n/a

Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars)

2

incl. 0 emperors

Notes:

Often confused in manuscripts with ATTIUS. E.g. Sura is called Attius by Pliny, but an inscrption of M762 indicates it should be Accius.

Literature

Alexander: Trials (1990) p.100 (trial §98 T. Attius (or Accius), prosecutor of A. Cluentius Habitus 66), p.169 (trial §352 L. Accius RE1, plaintif in libel case 136?)

Alföldy: Gallia Cisalpina (1999) p.287 (§10 Accius Sura, probably related to his likely descendant §16 Q. Mutilius Sura Accianus from Aquileia)

Alföldy: Konsulat (1977) p.201 (Accius Iulianus, cos mid 2ndcentury or 2nd half of 2nd century)

Hächler: Kontinuität und Wandel (2019) p.241-242 (§4 L. Accius Iulianus Asclepianus, cos suff 3rd century)

Jacques: Curateurs (1983) p.198-199 (§98 L. Accius Iulianus Asclepianus, curator of Utica in Africa)

Kajava, Mika: "A New Catalogue of Roman Upper-Class Women", in Arctos vol. XXII, 1988,  p.79 (doubts that Accia FOS1 was called Accia Marulla,

as suggested by Vidman in PIR-N57)

Nicolet: Prosopographie (1974) p.756 (§2 C. Accius Paelignus, praef 49, manuscripts have Atius and Attius, Nicolet prefers Accius, because a

T. Accius T.l. Paelinus at Corfinium, which is in tribus Sergia)

Raepsaet-Charlier: PFOS (1987) stemma I (Neratii), XLVIII (Neratii)

Reinach, Theodor: "Un nouveau sous-préfet romain de Tarantaise", in Revue Archéologique, T. 15, 1910, p. 347-349 (inscription of T. Accius T.f. Secundus)

Settipani: Continuite (2000) p.325 (stemma, he proposes Sura is the grandfather of Iulianus)

Shackleton Bailey: "Two Studies" (1976), p.4 (T. Accius from 66 BC, manuscripts have Attius or Accius; Bailey tends to Attius)

Syme, Ronald: "People in Pliny", in JRS vol.58, 1968, p.139-140+146 (also Roman Papers II p.701, 712) (Accius Sura, Syme prefers Accius over Attius)

Syme, Ronald: "Pliny's Less Successful Friends", in Historia IX, 1960, p.368-370 (also Roman Papers II p.483-486) (Accius Sura)

Villaret, Alain: "Les dieux augustes dans l’Occident romain : un phénomène d’acculturation", Annexe 3, Notices prosopographiques, Bordeaux, 2016 p.151 + 318

(Table 4 and 9: T. Accius Secundus)

Changes

2014.01.18 Header restructured plus updates.

2022.01.03 New header, reference list plus added three republican Accii and Secundus and Seneca.

RE1

L. Accius

* 170 in Pisaurum, † c 84 son of a freedman,

~

poet, wrote tragedies, grammarian,

plaintif in libel case 136?

Cicero knew him as a youth,

RE1a

RE Attius4 Nic2

T. Accius Pisaurensis (or T. Attius)

C. Accius Paelignus (or Attius ?)

from Pisaurum, eques Romanus,

tribus Sergia ?

prosecutor of A. Cluentius 66

praefectus of Caesar 49

when adulescens

REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL

A28 Stech1587

Accius Sura

likely from Aquileia, in Transpadana,

friend of Pliny, equestrian,

recommended by Pliny for pr under early Trajan,

possibly father or grandfather of A26

A26 RE2 Stech1808 Bar614

Accius Iulianus

cos suff ca 125/150 or 150/200

AE 1978-288 and 289

?

FOS1

?

(Accia)

(Accius Iulianus)

~  Neratius Priscus (N57)

cos suff ca 150/175

?

↓

M762 RE

(Accius Iulianus)

Q. Mutillius Sura Accianus Nepos

from Aquileia,

X vir stlit iudic,

?

A27

RE3 Okon1197 Bar1955

L. Accius Iulianus Asclepianus

clar vir, patron of Utica, Africa,

cos suff early 3rd century,

curator rei publicae of Utica,

~  Gallonia Octavia Marcella, G52

A29

PLRE

A30 PLRE

Accia Asclepianilla Castorea

Accia Heuresis Venantium

clar puella

clar puella

honoured at Utica

honoured at Utica

UNCERTAIN DATE

ILGN15

ILS2737

T. Accius T.f. Secundus

M. Accius Seneca

trib. Quirina,

II vir quinq at Firmum Picenum,

from Eburodunum (Embrun) in Alpes Cottiae,

c. time of Nerva / Trajan

b(eneficiarius) of proc. Aug of Alpium Graiarum

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