The gens Mummia was a
plebeian family at
Rome. Members of this
gens are first mentioned after the
Second Punic War, and within a generation,
Lucius Mummius Achaicus became the first of the family to obtain the
consulship. Although they were never numerous, Mummii continued to fill the highest offices of the state through the third century AD.
As the Mummii were neither a large nor an old family, few of them are found with any surname in the time of the
Republic. The chief exception was Achaicus, an
agnomen won by Lucius Mummius, the consul of 146 BC, for his conquest of Greece, and he is said to have been the first novus homo to have earned such a distinction through his military achievements.[1] Members of this gens are frequently found with
cognomina in
imperial times.
Members
This list includes abbreviated
praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see
filiation.
Lucius Mummius, the father of the tribunes Lucius and Quintus.[1]
Spurius Mummius L. f. L. n., the brother of Achaicus, to whom he was philosophically opposed. Spurius served as his brother's
legate at Corinth in 146 and 145 BC. He opposed the establishment of rhetorical academies at Rome, and wrote letters on ethics and satire.[24][25]
Spurius Mummius S. n., was a friend of Cicero, to whom he would read his grandfather's letters. In 46 BC, Cicero wrote that Mummius had died not long before.[26]
Mummia Achaica, great-granddaughter of Lucius Mummius Achaicus, and mother of the emperor
Galba.[35]
Mummius Lupercus, sent by the consul
Marcus Hordeonius Flaccus with two legions to fight
Gaius Julius Civilis, leader of the
Batavi, in AD 69. After being defeated, Mummius found his forces besieged; faced with starvation, his men eventually surrendered, and Mummius was slain by his captors.[36]
Lucius Mummius Niger Quintus Valerius Vegetus, consul suffectus in AD 112.
^Cicero, In Verrem, i. 21, iii. 4, iv. 2, Pro Murena, 14, De Lege Agraria, i. 2, De Oratore, ii. 6, Orator ad M. Brutum, 70, Brutus, 22, De Officiis, ii. 22, Epistulae ad Atticum, xiii. 4, 5, 6, 30, 32, 33, Paradoxa Stoicorum, v. 2, Pro Cornelio, ii. fragmentum 8.