Tuccia gens

The gens Tuccia was a plebeian family at Rome.[1]

Members

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

• Tuccia, a Vestal Virgin, accused of incest, appealed to the goddess to prove her innocence and had power given to her to carry a sieve full of water from the Tiber to the temple.[2]
• M. Tuccius, curule aedile in 192 BC, and praetor in 190 BC, with Apulia and Brutii as his province, where he also remained for the following two years as propraetor. In 185 BC he was one of the triumviri appointed for founding colonies at Sipontum and Buxentum.[3]
• M. Tuccius, accused C. Sempronius Rufus of vis in 51 BC and was in his turn accused by Rufus of the same offense.[4]
• Marcus Tuccius Cerialis, a suffect consul in an otherwise unknown year to whom Pliny the Younger wrote a letter full of tips on delivering a speech.[5]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Valerius Maximus VIII.1; Pliny, Natural History, XXVIII.2; Dionys. II.69; Augustine, The City of God X.16)
3. Livy XXXV.41;XXXVI.45; XXXVII.2,50; XXXVIII.36; XXXIX.23.
4. Marcus Caelius Rufus, Epistulae ad Familiares, VIII.8
5. Pliny, Epistulae, II.19

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