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Plebeian family at Rome
The gens Cosconia was a
plebeian family at
Rome . Members of this
gens are first mentioned in the
Second Punic War , but none ever obtained the honours of the
consulship ; the first who held a curule office was Marcus Cosconius,
praetor in 135 BC.
[1]
Praenomina
The
praenomina associated with the Cosconii are
Marcus ,
Gaius , and
Lucius .
Members
This list includes abbreviated
praenomina . For an explanation of this practice, see
filiation .
Marcus Cosconius,
military tribune in the army of the
praetor Publius Quinctilius Varus, fell in the battle fought with
Mago in the land of the
Insubrian Gauls , 203 BC.
[2]
Marcus Cosconius M. f. (M. n.?), praetor in 135 BC, fought successfully with the
Scordisci in
Thrace . He is mentioned as a senator in 129.
[3]
[4]
Lucius Cosconius M. f. M. n.,
triumvir monetalis in 118 BC.
[5]
[6]
[1]
Gaius Cosconius , praetor during the
Social War , where he had considerable success as a general. Probably the same Gaius Cosconius who later concluded the war in
Illyricum as
proconsul about 78 BC.
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
Gaius Cosconius Calidianus, adopted from the Calidia gens, was an orator of little merit, distinguished for his vehement action and gesticulation.
[11]
Gaius Cosconius, praetor in 63 BC, and subsequently granted the title of proconsul in
Hispania Ulterior . Accused of extortion, but acquitted. Appointed in 59 by
Caesar to a commission to divide the public lands in
Campania , he died.
Cicero declined Caesar's offer to replace him.
[12]
Gaius Cosconius,
tribune of the plebs in 59 BC,
aedile in 57, and one of the judges of Publius Sextius in 56.
[13]
[14]
Cosconia Gallita, the sister of
Servius Cornelius Lentulus Maluginensis , consul in 10 BC,
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio , consul in AD 2, and
Quintus Junius Blaesus , consul in AD 10, married
Lucius Seius Strabo , and was the mother of
Sejanus .
[15]
Cosconius, a writer of
epigrams during the time of
Martial , whom he attacked on account of the length of his epigrams and their lascivious nature. He is severely handled in two epigrams of Martial.
[16]
Cosconius, the author of a grammar and a work on "actiones."
[17]
See also
References
^
a
b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. I, p. 863 ("Cosconia Gens").
^ Livy, xxx. 18.
^ Livy, Epitome , 56.
^ Sherk, "Senatus Consultum De Agro Pergameno ", p. 367.
^
Joseph Hilarius Eckhel , Doctrina Numorum Veterum , v. p. 196.
^ Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage , vol. I, pp. 298, 299.
^ Livy, Epitome , 75.
^ Appian, Bellum Civile , i. 52.
^ Eutropius, vi. 4.
^ Orosius, v. 23.
^ Cicero, Brutus , 69.
^ Cicero, Pro Sulla , 14; In Vatinium Testem , 5.
^ Cicero, In Vatinium Testem , 7; Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem , ii. 6.
^ Plutarch, "The Life of Caesar", 51.
^ Adams, "The Consular Brothers of Sejanus", p. 75.
^ Martial, Epigrams , ii. 77; iii. 69.
^ Varro, De Lingua Latina , vi. 36, 89 (ed. Müller).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Smith, William , ed. (1870).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .
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