Cuspia_gens

Cuspia gens

The gens Cuspia was a plebeian family of equestrian rank at ancient Rome. Few of its members obtained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, although Lucius Cuspius Camerinus attained the consulship in the time of Hadrian.[1]

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References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 907 ("Publius Cuspius"), vol. II, p. 133 ("Cuspius Fadus").
  2. Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 6.
  3. Josephus, Antiquitates Judaïcae, xix. 9, xx. 5. § 1, Bellum Judaïcum, ii. 11. § 5.
  4. Tacitus, Historiae, v. 9.
  5. Zonaras, xii. 11.
  6. Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ii. 11.
  7. Franklin, James L. (2001). "Pompeis Difficile Est: Studies in the Political Life of Imperial Pompeii". University of Michigan Press. p. 173. ISBN 9780472110568.
  8. Birley, "Hadrian and Greek Senators", p. 219.
  9. The sources disagree on his praenomen: CIL VIII, 1754 attests "Lucius", while CIL VIII, 8937 attests "Gaius"

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