Fulcinia (gens)

The gens Fulcinia was a family at Rome. The first of this name to appear in history is Gaius Fulcinius, one of the ambassadors to Fidenae in 438 BC. After this, no Fulcinius is mentioned until the time of Cicero, so that one cannot even be certain that they belonged to the same family. Whatever the case, several Fulcinii are known from the first century BC.^[1]

Praenomina used

The Fulcinii are known to have used the praenomina Gaius, Marcus, and Lucius, all of which were amongst the most common names throughout Roman history.^[1]

Members

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

• Gaius Fulcinius, one of four ambassadors sent to Fidenae in 438 BC to inquire into the reasons for the city's revolt against Rome. On the advice of Lars Tolumnius, the king of Veii, whose cause the Fidenates had joined, the ambassadors were put to death. Afterwards, the ambassadors were honoured with statues on the Rostra.^[2][3]
• Marcus Fulcinius, a native of Tarquinii in Etruria, was a man of high respectability, who carried on a considerable banking business at Rome.^[4]
• Marcus Fulcinius M. f., son of the banker, died young.^[4]
• Marcus Fulcinius, a freedman of the banker Marcus Fulcinius.^[4]
• Gaius Fulcinius, father of Lucius.
• Lucius Fulcinius C. f., brought the charge of murder against Marcus Saufeius in BC 52.^[5]
• Lucius Fulcinius, whose name appears on Macedonian coins, had been quaestor, in an uncertain year.^[6]
• Lucius Fulcinius Trio, consul in AD 31, the year Sejanus was put to death. A notorious informer under Tiberius, he had accused the consul Lucius Scribonius Libo in AD 16, and four years later he brought about the downfall of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso. A friend of Sejanus, Trio postponed his own fall by pretending great anxiety to bring the accomplices of Sejanus to justice. But in 35, he was himself accused and thrown into prison, where he put an end to his own life before he could be condemned. In his will, he attacked the emperor, the praetorian prefect Macro, and the emperor's principal freedmen.^[7][8]

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita iv. 17.
3. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae ix. 2.
4. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Caecina 4, 6.
5. Quintus Asconius Pedianus, in Cic. Milon. p. 54.
6. Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum vol. v. p. 221.
7. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales ii. 28, 30, iii. 10, 19, v. 11, vi. 4, 38.
8. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History lviii. 9, 25.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.