Gens:

APPULEIUS

Created:

28th August 2007

Update:

8th April 2021

Status Republic:

Patrician:

Pleb. Nobilis:

Senatorial:

Eques Romanus:

Local magistrate:

Republican Family / Cognomen

Patrician

n/a

Pleb. Nobilis

Pansa

Senatorial

no cognomen, Decianus, Saturninus

Equestrian

n/a

Local magistrat.

Rufus

Uncertain

no cognomen, Decianus, Saturninus

Imperial Family / Cognomen

Imperators

n/a

Consular

no cognomen, Rufinus,

Senatorial

Tappo, Varus ?.

Equestrian

Balbinus

Equestrian (mil)

no cognomen,

Local magistrat.

Fronto, Madaurensis, Severus, Tappo,

Uncertain

Nepos

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

Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars)

incl. 0 emperors

Notes:

Patrician after 29 BC. Spelling also Apuleius.

AIJ= Antike Inschriften aus Jugoslavien, 1938 by Hoffiler and Saria

Literature

Alexander: Trials (1990) p.39 (Trial §74, in 101 Saturninus charged with violation of immunity of envoys before a quaestio extraordinario, acquitted),

p.40 (Trial §77 in c.100: Saturninus prosecuted Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus , cos. 109, for perduellio, exiled), p.40-41 (Trial §78 in 99: C. Appuleius

Decianus prosecuted L. Valerius Flaccus (cos 86), acquitted), p.41-42 (§79 in 99 or 98: C. Appuleius Decianus prosecuted C. Canuleius tr. pl. 99;; killed by mob),

p.42 (§81 in 98 or 97: Decianus convicted and exiled), p.122 (§247 in 59: C. Appuleius Decianus (RE22) as subscriptor de repetundis vs L. Valerius Flaccus

gov. Asia 62; acquitted),

Alföldy: Gallia Cisalpina (1999) p.286 (§3 C. Appuleius Tappo, A967 from Aquileia)

Atkinson, K.M.T.: "The Governors of the Province Asia in the Reign of Augustus", in Historia 7, 1958, p.325 (Sex. Appuleius cos 29, procos Asia ? 23/22 BC)

Badian "P. Decius P.f. Subulo: An Orator of the Time of the Gracchi", in JRS 46, 1956, p.91-96 (Appuleius Decianus, probably natural son of P. Decius pr 115

and adopted by a C. Appuleius)

Bur: La Citoyenneté dégradée 312 av. Chr. à 96 ap. Chr. (2013) p.67-70 (§16 L. Appuleius Saturninus, expelled from senate 102 BC),

Cavaggioni, Francesca: "L. Apuleio Saturnino. ‘Tribunus plebis seditiosus’", Istituto Veneto di Science, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia 1998

Crawford: RRC vol I (1974) p.323-324 (§317 L. Saturn, presumably L. Appuleius Saturninus, monetalis 104 BC),

Curchin: Local Magistrates of Roman Spain (1990) p.31 (discussion of coin with "L Ap Dec q", the q not necessarily a quaestor at Rome))

Curchin: Supplement to Local Magistrates of Roman Spain (2015) p.45 (discussion of coin with "L Ap Dec q", many other possibilities than a L. Appuleius Decianus)

d'Asdia, Marilena ': "Nuove riflessioni sulla domus di Apuleio a Ostia", in Archeologia Classica, Vol. 53, 2002, p.433-464 (the family of Apuleius Marcellus at Ostia, but lists

also all Apuleii / Appuleii in CIL in appendix p.452-458)

Deline: Women in Criminal Trials (2009) p.274 (§12 Appuleia Varilla, in 17 AD accused of maiestas and adultery, exiled for adultery)

Deniaux: Clientèles et pouvoir (1993) p.391-393 (§5 Appuleius, proq 47-46), p.550-552 (§86 Cn. Saturninus, RE27, is a Sentius Saturninus)

Dobo: Verwaltung Pannonien (1968) p.19 (§4 Sex. Appuleius, cos ord 29, leg of army of Illyricum 8-7 BC)

Eilers, C.: "M. Silanus, Stratoniceia, and the Governors of Asia under Augustus", in Tyche 14 (1999) p.84-85 (argues for 26-24 BC, i.e. 26/25 and 25/24

as the two year period of Sex. Appuleius' proconsulate of Asia)

Fitz: Pannonien (1993-1995) p.57 (§ Sex. Appuleius, ), p.911 (§588 L. Appuleius, II vir iure dicundo in Celeia in Pann)

Franklin: Pompeis difficile est (2001) p.75-76 (Q. Appuleius Severus, II vir at Pompeii mid 50s AD)

Hächler: Kontinuität und Wandel (2019) p.298-299 (§41 'P. Attius Ulpius Apuleius Clementinus Rufinus, governor Syria Coele 241)

Hinard: Proscriptions (1985) p.333-334 (§5 Sex. Appuleius father of A960, whose carrer was arrested possibly because his father was proscribed by Sulla),

p.426-427 (§12 M. Appuleius, RE13, proscribed 43, Hinard identifies him with the cos 20 BC), p.427-428 (§13 (P.?) Appuleius, RE4, ? = RE15 tr pl 43)

Kelly, Gordon P.: "A History of Exile in the Roman Republic", Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.180-181 (§24 C. Appuleius Decianus, tr pl 98 exiled with son 97 BC)

Klein: Sicilien und Sardinien (1878) p.100 (§101 Appuleius, RE6, governor likely after 27 BC)

Kreiler: Statthalter zwischen Republik und Prinzipat, (2006) p.81-82 (argues that Sex. Appuleius was governor of Hisp Cit 31-30, i.e. before his consulate because ILS894

mentions IMP(erator) before COS; this seems unconvincing to me)

Kuhn, Christina T.: "Honours for Marcus Appuleius in Miletus", in ZPE Bd. 193, 2015, p.189-192 with stemma (prefers 26-24 for Sex. Appuleius proconsulate in Asia)

Leunissen: Konsuln (1989) p.132, 208-209, 216 (Apuleius Rufinus, cos suff 190, procos Asia 203/204)

Lewis: Priests (1955) p.40 (augur §16 Sex. Appuleius, augur by 26/25 BC), p.37 (flamen §2 Sex. Appuleius, flamen Iulialis, either the cos 29 BC or his father,

probably to succeed M. Antonius), p.123 (frater arvalis §23 Sex. [---], perhaps Sex. Appuleius cos 14 AD or Sex. Pompeius cos 14 AD),

Mouritsen: Pompeian Epigraphy (1988) p.109, 127 (Appuleius , II vir cand 50/79)

Niccolini: Fasti dei Tribuni della Plebe (1934) p.50-51 (L. Apuleius, tr pl 391 BC), p.192-195, 198-204 (L. Appuleius Saturninus, tr pl 103, 100, 99),

p.205-210 (C. Appuleius Decianus, tr pl 98), p.354-359 (P. Appuleius, tr pl 43), p.396-397 (Apuleius tr pl post 241, Lex de sponsu),

p.446 (C. Appulleius Tappo, tr pl late republic or early Augustus)

Nitschke: Dignitas (2006) p.25-26 (M. Appuleius, A959, q 45, proq 44, proscribed 43, cos 20; Sex. Appuleius, A961, cos 29 BC; Sex. Appuleius, A962, cos 14 AD)

Oliver, J. H.: "The Descendants of Asinius Pollio", in AJPh 68, 1947, p.160 cf. AE 1949 S. 9 (P. Appuleius Varus, name indicates a relative of Appuleia Varilla)

Pighi, Ioannes Baptista: "De lvdis saecvlaribvs", Amsterdam, 1965, p.249 (Atulenus Rufinus, Xvvir 204 =? Apuleius Rufinus cos suff 189;; not accepted now)

Pollini, John: "Ahenobarbi, Appuleii and Some Others on the Ara Pacis", in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol.90, 1986, p.453-460, argues that the inscription

assumed related to RE16a (pr, Flam Iulialis) is the son cos 29BC and thus nothing is known of Octavia Maior's husbond. It would also be cos 29 who became

a patrician in 30. Indeed the cos 29 could be the husbond of Octavia. If Octavia was born c.70, the cos 29 (born earliest c.60/55 if he reached the consulate

at very early age like Agrippa) can only with difficulty be a son. Rübke: Fasti Sacerdotum p. 539 prefers this.

Polo: Quaestorship in the Roman Republic (2019) p.215 (M. Appuleius, RE13, q 45, proq Asia 44), p.215-216 (P. Appuleius, RE2?, RE15, proq 46 tr pl 43)

p.216-217 (L. Appuleius Saturninus, q either 105 or 104 BC), p.217 (C. Appuleius Tappo, possibly q in the 40s BC), p.307-308 (Cn. Saturninus, q 68?)

Raepsaet-Charlier: PFOS (1987) stemma XIII (Appuleia Varilla)

Rüpke: Fasti Sacerdotum (2008) p.539 (M Appuleius, A959, RE13 not an augur), p-539 (§686 Sex. Appuleius, cos 29 BC; Rüpke opines he cannot be the son of

Octavia Maior for chronological reasons, he must be her husband, and the flamen Iulialis must be his son)

Salomies "Senatori oriundi del Lazio", in H. Solin: Studi storico-epigrafici sul Lazio antico, Roma 1996, p.115 (L. Appuleius from Nomentum in Latium, PME-154)

Scheid: Freres Arvales (1975) p.61-62 (§9 Sex. Appuleius Sex.f., cos ord 29 BC; hypothesis he was frater Arv in 29), p.128-130 (§22 Sex. Appuleius, cos 14 AD,

co-opted probably in 21)

Schmalz: Athens (2009) p.187-188 (§239 Statue Dedication: in honor of P. Appuleius Varus; probably first quarter of the 1st c. A.D.)

Schneider: Zusammensetzung des römischen Senates (1942), p.7-8 (§3 Sex. Appuleius, cos 14 AD)

Shackleton Bailey: "Two Studies" (1976), p.14-15 (RE30 does not have Saturninus for cognomen; RE27 is a Sentius Saturninus), p.104 (Appuleius Decianus, tr pl 98)

Stumpf: Statthalter in Kleinasien 122 v.Chr. - 163 n.Chr (1991) p.90-92 (Sex. Appuleius, procos Asia, either 25/24 or 24/23)

Sumner: Orators (1973) p.119-121 (§R167 L. Appuleius Saturninus, tr pl 100, with stemma)

Sumner, G.V.: "Lex Annalis under Caesar (Continued)", in Phoenix Vol.25, 1971, p. 361-363 with stemma p.362 (M. Appuleius q 45 unlikely to be the consul of 20 BC)

Syme: Augustan Aristocracy (1986) p.316-318 plus stemma XXVI (descendents of Octavia Maior), p.126-127 (doubts Appuleia was the wife of M. Aemilius

Lepidus cos 78, who died of grief after the divorce; other M. Lepidi are possible)

Syme, Ronald: "Senators, Tribes and Towns", in Historia 13, 1964, p.111 (also in Roman Papers II, p.600-601, 611), (concludes that L. Appuleius, pr 59, had

had no cognomen and was not a Saturninus), p.121-122 (the Saturninus of Pro Plancia was a Sentius not an Appuleius)

Szramkiewicz: Gouverneurs Vol.2 (1972) p.376-377 (Appuleius, RE6, procos Sicilia possibly after 27 BC; M. Appuleius, cos 20 BC, q.45 etc; Sex. Appuleius cos 29)

Taylor: Voting Districts (1960/2013) p.192 (Appuleia: L. Ap(p)uleius? L. f., Sergia, . S.C. 44 , no. 5; M. Appuleius M. f., trib Cam, Consilium 129 , no. 26; .

Sex. Appuleius Sex.f. Sex. n. Sex. pron., trib. Gal. A963, from Luba, "ultimus gentis suae"; L. Appuleius Saturninus, pr 59, from Atina, hence tribus Ter.,

he was first of his family in senate thus must derive from collateral line of tr pl 100)

Thomasson: Fasti Africani (1996) p.80 (§105 Rufinus, procos Africa 203/204, possibly = A966)

Villaret, Alain: "Les dieux augustes dans l’Occident romain : un phénomène d’acculturation", Annexe 3, Notices prosopographiques, Bordeaux, 2016 p.35-36

discusses numerous Appuleii in Dalmatia, incl. Balbinus,, eques Romanus. These Appuleii may have derived their gens from Sex. Appuleius, legatus 8 BC)

Wiseman: New Men (1971) p.213 (§33 Sex. Appuleius, A960), p.213 (§34 C. Appuleius M.f. Tappo, A967)

Zmeskal: adfinitas (2009) p.35-37 (Republican Appuleii)

Changes

2013.11.11 first update

2021.04.08 New header, reference list plus many updates

RE10

L. Appuleius

tr pl 391

RE24

Q. Apuleius Pansa

cos 300

RE28

not in RE

RE16

L. Apuleius Saturninus

C. Appuleius Saturninus

Q. Appuleius

Xvir agr dand 173

Vvir fin cognosc. Statuend. 168

Xvir agr dand assig 173

pr pereg 166 amb 156 (or 155)

RE9

not in RE

(Appuleius Saturninus)

C. Appuleius

P. Decius Subulo

M. Appuleius M.f.

Appuleius

tr pl 120 pr 115

trib Cam,

tr pl an inc, post 241

adopted

sen 129

a Lex Appuleia de sponsu

in SC de Agro Pergameno

RE29

RE133

RE21

L. Appuleius Saturninus

Cn. Cornelius Dolabella

C. Appuleius Decianus

mon c 105 q Ostia 104

"frater" of RE29

tr.pl.98 (99?) exiled 97 (98?)

tr.pl.103 100 tr pl desig 99

† 100 murdered

RE32

RE30

RE22

Nic28

RE27 nonexistant person

RE11

not in RE

Appuleia

Sex. Appuleius

L. Appuleius

C. Appuleius Decianus

Cn. Appuleius L.f. Saturninus

L. Appuleius

Appuleius

tribus Galeria,

pr Maced 59

exiled 97 negotiator Asia for 30 years,

from Atinum,

subscriptor to

leg c.50/1 BC

?? ~ M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos 78

ab Luna in

procos Maced 58

subscriptor vs L. Valerius Flaccus

sen by 54 (Cic Planc.19+29)

Caecilius Niger,

↓

Etruria

? = senator 44

60/59 (Cic Pro Flacc 29)

ment 44 (ad Fam xii.26)

Cic Div. in Caec. 47

? = RE11

is a Sentius Saturninus

year 70, ? = RE30

ILS8963

A960 RE16a Laet36

RE13

A959 RE4 Laet35

RE5

not in RE

RE2

RE15

Curchin547 RPC155-156

RE3

Sex. Appuleius Sex.f.

M. Appuleius Sex.f.

Apuleius

L. Appuleius L.f.

L. Appuleius Decianus

Appuleius

?=?

P. Appuleius

L. Appuleius Rufus

Appuleius

q, pr urb ,

augur 45 q Asia 45

proscr 43

trib Sergia, 5th on

q.44, proq 43-42 sub

q.48

supported Cicero 63

II vir quinq 42/23 (32?)

praediator

flamen Iulialis 30 or 29

proq Asia 44 proscribed 43

fled to Brutus

senatus consultum 44

Sex.Pompeius

proq. Asia 47-46

tr.pl.43

at Carthago Nova,

Cic ad Att

became Patrician 33 (or 29)

proscr 43 (= RE5)

? = pr 59

Cic ad Fam xiii-45/46

xii.14.17

~ Octavia Maior

leg of Brutus in Bithynia 42

halfsister of AUGUSTUS

REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL

LP3-3 17-5 26-4

A961

RE17 RE17a Laet37 Rüpke686

A959 RE14 Laet35

A967 RE31 Rüpke p.540 Laet441

PME-A154 Dem22

RE6

Sex. Appuleius Sex.f Sex.n.

M. Appuleius Sex.f.

C. Appuleius M.f. Tappo

L. Appuleius L.f.

Appuleius

cos ord 29 BC procos Hisp Cit 28/27 triumph 26

leg Aug 23/22 (of legio ?)

ab Aquleia, thus trib Velina,

from Nomentum in Latium,

procos Sicilia

augur by 26/25 procos Asia 2 years 23-21 (or 26-24

cos ord 20 BC

q, tr pl, aedil, iudex quaestionis,

tr mil shortly after 40 AD

uncertain date

? frat Arv 29

pr c. 40/20 BC

or (Dem) 44/30 BC

post 27 BC ?

leg Aug pro pr Illicum 8 BC (RE17a)

~ Fonteia

ILS906

son of L. Appuleius L.l. Asclepiades

patron Aesernia, Assiorum, Samiorum,

local pont

thus a freedman

~ Quinctilia, Q31

dt of Sex. Quinctilius Varus q 49

A962

RE18 Laet38 Rüpke687

A968 RE33 FOS85

PIR-add

ILLRP540 cf A967 cf RE31

CIL-IV-3526

Sex. Appuleius Sex.f.Sex.n.

Appuleia Varilla

P. Appuleius Varus

C. Appuleius C.f. Tappo

Appuleius

cos ord 14 AD

honoured c.23/22 BC

honored at Athens ca 1/25 AD

pontifex at Aquileia,

II vir cand at Pompeii 50/79

frater Arvalis attested 21

exiled 17 AD

senator ?

~ Sepstnia

= Q. Appuleius Severus

~ Fabia Numantina, FOS353, dt of

~ M. Aemilius Lepidus

aedil c.55/56 II vir mid 50s

Paullus Fabius Maximus

A370

see Castren 136

cos 11 BC

(~ 1 or 2 M. Plautius Silvanus)

A963

RE19

(Sex.) Appuleius Sex.f.Sex.n.Sex.pron.

tribus Galeria,

† sp

A965 RE23

Appuleius Nepos

heir to Dasumius 108

Apuleius

II vir at Madaura in Numidia,

A958

RE9

PIR1 V551

(L.?) Apuleius Madaurensis

M. Ulpius Apuleius Eurycles

* c.125 † c.170??

from Aizani,

platonic and sophist ,

high priest of Asia 161 high priest II 180/192

author of the Golden Ass,

KEARSLEY R.A. 1987, ‘M. Ulpius Appuleius Eurykles

sacerdos provincia,

of Aezani. Panhellene, Asiarch and Archiereus of Asia’,

accused and acquitted 158

Antichton 21, 49-56.

RE Rufinus5 LP39-118 Lamb1025

A966 RE26 R140 Bar447 Bar 648 Okon90 Okon879

Apuleius Rufinus

leg Augusti provinciae Africae dioeceseos Numidiae,

leg leg VIII Aug, praef frumenti dandi,

praefectus aerarii Saturni, cos suff 190 or 189

procos Africa 203/204 (R140)

curator Bovianensium, Albensium, Fucentium, Concordiensium

not = Atulenus Rufinus XVvir sf 204, A1372

Okon138 AE2003-1674 A1372

P. Attius Clementinus Rufinus

from Ephesus

cos suff

~ Ulpia Apuleia

AE1977-22 Okon141 LP33-80 PIR-V-p.423

RE8

P. Attius Ulpius Apuleius Clementinus Rufinus

Apuleius

clar vir,

reeceived rescript 245

leg Aug pro pr Syria Coele 241 (Attius Rufinus)

~ Fl(avia) Veratia Peticianilla, clar fem

↓

UNCERTAIN DATE

Fitz588

CIL-III-9997

CIL-III-2977

L. Appuleius

C. Appuleius C.f. Balbinus

Appuleius P.f. Fronto

II vir at Celeia in Noricum,

trib. Sergia, at Iader in Dalmatia,

aedil, II vir quiquennalis, pont

AIJ p.6-7 nr 9

eques Romanus,

at Aenona, Dalmatia,

centurion in legio X Gem,

local pont,

2nd century

† aged 21