Tarutilia gens

Ancient Roman family

The gens Tarutilia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned in history, but several are known from inscriptions.

Origin

The nomen Tarutilius belongs to a class of gentilicia that was typically derived from either cognomina ending in the diminutive suffix -ulus, or perhaps the double diminutives -illus or -ellus,^[1] or more probably in this case, from existing gentilicia,^[2] such as Tarutius, a nomen of Etruscan origin.^[3]

Members

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

• Tarutilius, named in a bone inscription from an uncertain location, dated the nones of October, 77 BC.^[4]
• Tarutilius, mentioned in a portion of the Fasti Praenestini immediately following the Larentalia, for which he apparently left a large testamentary donation.^[5]
• Aulus Tarutilius, the former master of Aulus Tarutilius Philomusus.^[6]
• Aulus Tarutilius A. l. Philomusus, a freedman buried at Rome, some time between the middle of the first century BC, and the first century AD.^[6]
• Lucius Tarutilius, the former master of Lucius Tarutilius Saturninus.^[7]
• Lucius Tarutilius L. l. Saturninus, a freed child buried at Rome during the first half of the first century, aged two years, four months.^[7]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. Chase, pp. 122–124.
2. Chase, p. 125.
3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 151 ("Tarutius Firmanus").
4. CIL I, 943.
5. AE 1898, 14.
6. CIL VI, 27117.
7. CIL VI, 6129.

Bibliography

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
• René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
• George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).