Gens: AURUNCULEIUS
Created: 10th August 2007
Update:  26th September 2020
Status Republic: Patrician:     Pleb. Nobilis:       Senatorial: X    Eques Romanus:      Local magistrate:  
Republican Family / Cognomen
Patrician n/a
Pleb. Nobilis n/a
Senatorial no cognomen, Cotta
Equestrian n/a
Local magistrat. n/a
Uncertain n/a
Imperial Family / Cognomen
Imperators n/a
Consular n/a
Senatorial Cornelianus, Cotta ?, Gabo Aurunculeius,
Equestrian Gabo Aurunculeius, Iulianus,
Equestrian (mil) Felicissimus
Local magistrat. n/a
Uncertain Cotta
Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors 0
Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars) 0 incl. 0 emperors
Notes: Nomen probably derived from the Aurunci tribe in Campania conquered in 314 BC (Suessa Aurunca)
Aurunculeia (Catullus poem 61) is called both Vinia and Iunia in line 16 and Auruculeia in line 82-83. Syme has suggested Vibia, an Oscan praenomen.
Literature Alföldy: Gallia Cisalpina (1999) p.313-314 (§35 L. Gabo Aurunculeius P. Acilius Severus)
Hussein: Power and Identity in Roman Cyprus (2014) p.65 (§36 L. Gabo Aurunculeius P. Acilius Severus,)
Klein: Sicilien und Sardinien (1878) p.203-204 (§7 C. Aurunculeius, pr Sardinia 209, propr 208)
Mitford: Roman Cyprus (1980) p.1303 (§39 L. Gabo Aurunculeius P. Acilius Severus, dates his procos to Antonine period)
Ryan, Franz Xaver: "Eine Beteurung Tuberos - enie Andeutung Caesars und eine Unterstellung Ciceros", in Aevum,  vol. 78, 2004, p.55 (suggest that
M. (Aurelius) Cotta, RE109, was a Aurunculeius brother to the legatus of 54)
Suolahti, Jaakko: Junior Officers (1955) p.348 (§34 Aurunculeii, C. Aurunculeius tr mil 207 BC)
Thomasson: Legatus (1991) p.114 (§202 L. Aurunculeius, legatus 57 and 55/54)
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RE1 cf RE2
C. Aurunculeius
pr Sardinia 209 propr Sardinia 208
?
 
RE2   RE4
C. Aurunculeius     L.Aurunculeius
tr mil 207 pr urb 190 amb 189-188
?
 
RE3  
C. Aurunculeius
amb 155
?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RE6   RE109 RE7
L. Aurunculeius Cotta   M. (Aurelius ?)  Cotta Iunia Aurunculeia
leg of Caesar in Gallia 58? 57-54 possibly an Aurunculeius, (or Vinia or Vibia Aurunculeia)
† 54 in battle pr by 54 or 50 ~ L. Manlius Torquatus
propr Sardinia 49 pr 49
 
 
  REPUBLIC
        IMPERIAL                                              
 
 
A1675
L. Aurunculeius Cotta
early imperial
A1674 RE5 Okon168 Bar82
Aurunculeius Cornelianus
possibly from Praeneste,
vir nobilis killed by Septimius Severus
UNCERTAIN DATE                                                    
PME-A261 CIL-XIII11878 G13 ILS6717 A1673
Aurunc(eius) or Aurunc(uleius) Felicissimus M. Asurunculeius Iulianus L. Gabo Aurunculeius Valerianus C. Aurunceius C.f. Cotta
tr mil of coh in Britannia eques Romanus at Moguntiacum from Brixia inscription at Praeneste,
3rd century 3rd century vir egreg, rich
Alföldy Equites Romani p.216 nr 17 ? note spelling,
 
G12 ILS6717 LP32-38
L. Gabo Aurunculeius P. Acilius Severus
trib. Fabia from Brixia,
clar vir, iuridicus Transpadana,
procos desig Cyprus,
not before M. Aurelius or 3rd century
his nephew was L. Valerius Marcellinus