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Baebia gens

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The gens Baebia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus, in 182 BC. During the later Republic, the Baebii were frequently connected with the patrician family of the Aemilii.[1][2]

Praenomina

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The main praenomina of Baebii during the Republic were Quintus, Gnaeus, Marcus, and Lucius, all of which were common names throughout Roman history. In addition to these, they occasionally used Gaius and Aulus. Other names occur under the Empire.

Branches and cognomina

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The cognomina of the Baebii are Dives, Herennius, Sulca, and Tamphilus. The last, borne by the oldest family of the Baebii appearing in history, is the only surname which appears on coins, where it is written Tampilus. All of the consuls and most of the praetors of this gens during the Republic belonged to this branch of the family.[1][3] Chase describes their surname as one of considerable curiosity, suggested by some scholars to be of Greek origin, but perhaps an Oscan name sharing a common root with the Tampia gens, who may have been of Sabine origin.[4] Certainly Herennius, borne as a surname by one of the Baebii, was originally an Oscan praenomen.[5] In imperial times, one family of the Baebii settled around Saguntum, the Spanish town over which the Second Punic War had begun.[6]

Members

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

Baebii Tamphili

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Other Baebii of the Republic

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Baebii under the Empire

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  • Gaius Baebius Atticus, eques and governor of Noricum.[49]
  • Baebius Massa, formerly governor of Baetica, for the maladministration of which he was condemned in AD 93. He avoided punishment through the favour of the emperor Domitian, under whom he became a notorious informer.[50][51][52]
  • Lucius Baebius Avitus, enrolled in the senate by Vespasian, and procurator of Lusitania.[53]
  • Lucius Baebius Honoratus, consul suffectus in AD 85.[54]
  • Publius Baebius Italicus, consul suffectus in AD 90.[54]
  • Lucius Baebius Tullius, consul suffectus in AD 95, and proconsul of Asia from 110 to 111.[54]
  • Quintus Baebius Macer, consul suffectus in AD 103, and praefectus urbi in 117.[55][56]
  • Baebius Marcellinus, aedile in 203 AD, was unjustly condemned to death under Septimius Severus, because by his baldness and senatorial rank, he vaguely resembled a man reported to have heard about a dream that the nurse of a certain Apronianus had once had, to the effect that Apronianus had become emperor.[57]
  • Lucius Baebius Juncinus, an equestrian officer, perhaps the father or grandfather of Lucius Baebius Aurelius Juncinus.[58]
  • Baebius Macrinus, a rhetorician, mentioned along with Julius Frontinus and Julius Granianus, as one of the teachers of the emperor Alexander Severus.[59]
  • Lucius Baebius Aurelius Juncinus, prefect of Egypt from AD 213 to 215.[60][61]
  • Baebius Macer, praetorian prefect during the reign of Valerian.[62]
  • Lucius Baebius Cassianus, of the tribus Voltinia in southern Gaul.[63][64]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 452, 453 ("Baebia Gens").
  2. ^ John Briscoe, "The Second Punic War: The Elections for 216 B.C.," in Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 8, p. 80.
  3. ^ Rawson, "Sallust on the Eighties?", p. 166.
  4. ^ Chase, p. 115.
  5. ^ Chase, p. 140.
  6. ^ Boscs-Plateaux, Un parti hispanique à Rome?, p. 599.
  7. ^ Livy, xxi. 6, 9, 18.
  8. ^ Cicero, Philippicae, v. 10.
  9. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 237.
  10. ^ Livy, xxxi. 6.
  11. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 324, 326 (note 3).
  12. ^ Livy, xxxii. 7, xxxix. 56, xl. 44.
  13. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 327, 381.
  14. ^ Livy, xl. 18, 35.
  15. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 383, 384.
  16. ^ Livy, xliv. 17, xlv. 17.
  17. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 428, 435.
  18. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 563, 565 (note 6).
  19. ^ Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus, 73.
  20. ^ Brunt, "The Settlement of Marian Veterans", p. 278.
  21. ^ Andrew Lintott, "Political History, 146–95 B.C.," in Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 9, p. 95.
  22. ^ Livy, xxii. 34.
  23. ^ PW, "Baebius", No. 26.
  24. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 249, 253 (note 3).
  25. ^ Lazenby, Hannibal's War, p. 74.
  26. ^ Smith, The Roman Clan, p. 330.
  27. ^ Livy, xxx. 25, xxxvii. 47, 50, 57.
  28. ^ Polybius, xv. 1, 4.
  29. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 312, 313, 315 (note 8), 361.
  30. ^ Polybius, xxxiii. 6.
  31. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 373.
  32. ^ Livy, xlii. 6.
  33. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 402, 403 (note 3), 409.
  34. ^ Chaplin, Livy: Rome's Mediterranean Empire, pp. 20, 27.
  35. ^ Livy, xliv. 18.
  36. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 426, 430.
  37. ^ Livy, xlv. 28, 31.
  38. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 436.
  39. ^ Grainger, The League of the Aitolians, pp. 529, 530.
  40. ^ Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum, 33, 34.
  41. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 540, 541.
  42. ^ PW, "Baebius", No. 10.
  43. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, i. 48.
  44. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, i. 72.
  45. ^ Florus, iii. 21.
  46. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Pisonem, 36.
  47. ^ Caesar, De Bello Hispaniensis, 26.
  48. ^ Appian, Bella Illyrica, 13.
  49. ^ Ségolène Demougin, Prosopographie des chevaliers romains julio-claudiens (43 av. J.-C. - 70 ap. J.-C.), (Rome: École Française de Rome, 1992) pp. 404f
  50. ^ Tacitus, Historiae, iv. 50, Agricola, 45.
  51. ^ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, vii. 33.
  52. ^ Juvenal, Satirae, i. 34.
  53. ^ Géza Alföldy, "Spain," in Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 11, p. 454.
  54. ^ a b c Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70–96".
  55. ^ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, iv. 9. § 16.
  56. ^ Aelius Spartianus, "The Life of Hadrian", 5.
  57. ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History, lxxvi. 8, 9.
  58. ^ CIL X, 6976 = ILS 1434.
  59. ^ Aelius Lampridius, "The Life of Alexander Severus", 3.
  60. ^ Westermann, Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity, p. 131.
  61. ^ CIL X, 7580 = ILS 1358
  62. ^ Flavius Vopiscus, "The Life of Aurelian", 12.
  63. ^ CIL XII, 2934.
  64. ^ Michel Provost, Carte Archeologique de la Gaule: Le Gard, p. 386.

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