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Denarius of Lucius Aurelius Cotta, 105 BC. The obverse is identical to the coins of Lipara, captured by Gaius Aurelius Cotta in 252 BC. The reverse depicts the triumph awarded for this victory.<ref name="Crawford 321">Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, pp. 321, 322.</ref>

The gens Aurelia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, which flourished from the third century BC to the latest period of the Empire. The first of the Aurelian gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Aurelius Cotta in 252 BC. From then to the end of the Republic, the Aurelii supplied many distinguished statesmen, before entering a period of relative obscurity under the early emperors. In the latter part of the first century, a family of the Aurelii rose to prominence, obtaining patrician status, and eventually the throne itself. A series of emperors belonged to this family, through birth or adoption, including Marcus Aurelius and the members of the Severan dynasty.<ref name="DGRBM Aurelia Gens">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 436 ("Aurelia Gens").</ref>

In 212, the Constitutio Antoniniana of Caracalla (whose full name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) granted Roman citizenship to all free residents of the Empire, resulting in vast numbers of new citizens who assumed the nomen Aurelius, in honour of their patron, including several emperors: seven of the eleven emperors between Gallienus and Diocletian (Claudius Gothicus, Quintillus, Probus, Carus, Carinus, Numerian and Maximian) bore the name "Marcus Aurelius". So ubiquitous was the name in the latter centuries of the Empire that it suffered abbreviation, as Aur., and it becomes difficult to distinguish members of the Aurelian gens from other persons bearing the name.<ref>Salway, "What's in a Name?", pp. 133–136.</ref>

OriginEdit

The nomen Aurelius is usually connected with the Latin adjective aureus, meaning "golden", in which case it was probably derived from the color of a person's hair. However, Festus reports that the original form of the nomen was Auselius, and that the medial 's' was replaced by 'r' at a relatively early period; the same process occurred with the archaic nomina Fusia, Numisia, Papisia, Valesia, and Vetusia, which became Furia, Numeria, Papiria, Valeria, and Veturia in classical Latin. According to Festus, Auselius was derived from a Sabine word for the sun.<ref>Paulus, Epitome de Sex. Pompeio Festo, p. 23.</ref><ref>Chase, p. 124.</ref>

PraenominaEdit

All of the praenomina used by the chief families of the Aurelii were common throughout Roman history. The Aurelii of the Republic primarily used Gaius, Lucius, Marcus, and Publius, to which the Aurelii Orestides added Gnaeus. The Aurelii Fulvi of imperial times used Titus, Marcus, and Lucius, while the Aurelii Symmachi used Quintus and Lucius.

Branches and cognominaEdit

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Denarius of Marcus Aurelius Cotta, 139 BC.<ref name="Crawford 263"/>

There were three main stirpes of the Aurelii in republican times, distinguished by the cognomina Cotta (also spelled Cota), Orestes, and Scaurus. Cotta and Scaurus appear on coins, together with a fourth surname, Rufus, which does not occur among the ancient writers. A few personal cognomina are also found, including Pecuniola, apparently referring to the poverty of one of the Aurelii during the First Punic War.<ref name="DGRBM Aurelia Gens"/>

Cotta, the surname of the oldest and most illustrious branch of the Aurelii under the Republic, probably refers to a cowlick, or unruly shock of hair; but its derivation is uncertain, and an alternative explanation might be that it derives from a dialectical form of cocta, literally "cooked", or in this case "sunburnt".<ref name="Chase 109">Chase, pp. 109, 110.</ref> Marcus Aurelius Cotta, moneyer in 139 BC, minted an unusual denarius, featuring Hercules in a biga driven by centaurs, presumably alluding to some mythological event connected with the gens, but the exact symbolism is unknown. The Aurelii Cottae were prominent from the First Punic War down to the time of Tiberius, after which they faded into obscurity. The last of this family appearing in history include Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus, a friend of Tiberius, who squandered his family fortune through reckless prodigality, and his son, who received a stipend from Nero in order to maintain his household in a manner befitting his illustrious forebears.<ref>Tacitus, Annales, vi. 7; xiii. 34.</ref> The Cottae were related to Julius Caesar and Augustus through Aurelia Cotta, who was Caesar's mother.

The Aurelii Scauri were a relatively small family, which flourished during the last two centuries of the Republic. Their surname, Scaurus, belongs to a common class of cognomina derived from an individual's physical features, and referred to someone with swollen ankles.<ref>Horace, Satirae, i. 3.</ref><ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 735 ("Scaurus"), 738 ("Aurelius Scaurus").</ref><ref name="Chase 109"/>

Orestes, the surname of a family that flourished for about a century toward the end of the Republic, was a Greek name, and belonged to a class of surnames of foreign origin, which appear during the middle and late Republic.<ref>Chase, pp. 114, 115.</ref> In Greek mythology, Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and avenged his father's murder by slaying his own mother, and after escaping the judgment of the Erinyes, became king of Mycenae. The circumstances by which the name became attached to a branch of the Aurelii are unclear, but perhaps allude to some heroic deed, or military service in Greece.<ref>Wiseman, "Legendary Genealogies", p. 157.</ref>

The Aurelii Fulvi, who rose to prominence in imperial times, originally came from Nemausus in Gallia Narbonensis.<ref name="DGRBM AP Fulvus">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 210–212 ("Antoninus Pius"), vol. II, p. 189 ("Fulvus").</ref> Titus Aurelius Fulvus, the first of the family to attain the consulship, was made a patrician about AD 73 or 74.<ref name="Jones 52">Jones, The Emperor Domitian, p. 52.</ref> In the second century, the Aurelii Fulvi obtained the Empire itself, when the consul's grandson, Titus Aurelius Fulvus, was adopted as the successor to Hadrian, becoming the emperor Antoninus Pius. Most of the emperors who followed were born or adopted into the gens, through the end of the Severan dynasty.<ref name="DGRBM AP Fulvus"/> The surname Fulvus was a common surname, referring to someone with yellowish, yellow-brown, tawny, or strawberry blond hair.<ref>New College Latin & English Dictionary, s. v. fulvus.</ref>

The Aurelii Galli were a family that achieved notability during the second century, attaining the consulship on at least three occasions. Their surname, Gallus, had two common derivations, referring either to a cockerel, or to a Gaul. In the latter case, it might indicate that the first of this family was of Gallic descent, that he was born in Gaul, that he had performed some noteworthy deed in Gaul, or that in some manner he resembled a Gaul.<ref>Chase, pp. 113, 114.</ref>

The Aurelii Symmachi were one of the last great families of the western empire, holding the highest offices of the Roman state during the fourth and fifth centuries. The Symmachi were regarded as members of the old Roman aristocracy, and acquired a reputation for their wisdom and learning.<ref>Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum, v. 147.</ref>

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Aurelii CottaeEdit

  • Gaius Aurelius L. f. C. n. Cotta, consul in 252 and 248 BC, during the First Punic War, he fought against the Carthaginians in Sicily, taking the towns of Himera and Lipara, and receiving a triumph for his victories in the former year. He was censor in 241, and magister equitum to the dictator Gaius Duilius in 231.<ref>Zonaras, viii. 14, 16.</ref><ref>Orosius, iv. 9.</ref><ref>Cicero, Academica Priora, ii. 26.</ref><ref>Frontinus, Strategemata, iv. 1. §§ 22, 31.</ref><ref>Valerius Maximus, ii. 7. § 4.</ref><ref name="Fasti Capitolini">Fasti Capitolini, Template:AE; 1940, 59, 60.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 212, 215, 219, 226.</ref>
  • Gaius Aurelius C. f. L. n. Cotta, legate of the consul Claudius Marcellus in 216 BC.<ref>Livy, xxiii. 16.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 251.</ref><ref name="Badian 64" />Template:Efn-lr
  • Marcus Aurelius C. f. L. n. Cotta, plebeian aedile in 216 BC. In 212, during the Second Punic War, he served under the consul Appius Claudius Pulcher at Puteoli. He was appointed decemvir sacrorum in 203, and the following year was an ambassador to Philip V of Macedon. He died in 201.<ref>Livy, xxiii. 30, xxv. 22, xxix. 38, xxx. 26, 42, xxxi. 3, 5, 50.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 249, 270, 272 (note 7), 313, 315 (note 7), 318, 321, 322 (note 3).</ref><ref name="Badian 64" />
  • Gaius Aurelius C. f. C. n. Cotta, praetor urbanus in 202 BC, and consul in 200, carried on the war against the Gauls in Italy. When the enemy was defeated by the praetor Lucius Furius Purpureo, Cotta distracted himself by raiding and plundering the countryside.<ref>Livy, xxx. 26, 27, xxxi. 5, 6, 10, 11, 21, 22, 47, 49.</ref><ref>Zonaras, ix. 15.</ref><ref>Orosius, iv. 20.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 316, 320, 323.</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius M. f. C. n. Cotta, served as the legate of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus during the war against Antiochus III in 189 BC. He brought Antiochus' ambassadors and other representatives of the east to Rome, where he gave his report to the senate.<ref>Livy, xxxvii. 52.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 363.</ref><ref name="Badian 64" />
  • Lucius Aurelius C. f. C. n. Cotta, military tribune in 181 BC, was one of the commanders of the third legion in the war against the Ligures, together with Sextus Julius Caesar.<ref>Livy, xl. 27.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 385.</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius L. f. C. n. Cotta, as tribune of the plebs in 154 BC, attempted to use his sacrosanctity as tribune to evade his creditors. Consul in 144 BC, he was denied the command against Viriathus through the influence of Scipio Aemilianus, who subsequently accused him of various crimes. Cotta was acquitted, chiefly out of spite against Scipio.<ref>Valerius Maximus, vi. 4. § 2, 5. § 4; viii. 1. § 11.</ref><ref>Cicero, Pro Murena, 28, Pro Fonteio, 13, Brutus, 21, Divinatio in Caecilium, 21.</ref><ref>Tacitus, Annales, iii. 66.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 450, 470.</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius L. f. L. n. Cotta, consul in 119 BC, attempted to prosecute Gaius Marius, then tribune of the plebs, for a law he had proposed to reduce the influence of the optimates in the comitia. Marius threatened to imprison Cotta, and the senate abandoned the consul's scheme.<ref>Plutarch, "The Life of Marius", 4.</ref><ref>Cicero, De Legibus, iii. 17.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 525.</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius (L. f. L. n.) Cotta, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} in 139 BC. He married Rutilia, the sister of Publius Rutilius Rufus, consul in 105, and their three sons Marcus, Gaius, and Lucius became consuls in 74, 75, and 65 respectively.<ref>Cicero, Brutus, 115.</ref><ref name="Crawford 263">Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 263.</ref>
  • Aurelia L. f. L. n., the wife of Gaius Julius Caesar, proconsul of Asia early in the first century BC, and mother of the dictator Caesar.
  • Lucius Aurelius (L. f. L. n.) Cotta, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} in 105 BC and tribune of the plebs circa 103; he tried to obstruct the prosecution of Quintus Servilius Caepio by the tribune Gaius Norbanus, but failed. He was praetor in an uncertain year; Broughton places his praetorship circa 95. Cicero describes him as a mediocre orator, who deliberately presented himself as a rustic.<ref>Cicero, De Oratore, ii. 47, iii. 11, 12, Brutus, 36, 74.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. II, pp. 11, 12 (note 1).</ref><ref name="Crawford 321" />
  • Marcus Aurelius M. f. L. n. Cotta, consul in 74 BC, received the province of Bithynia during the war with Mithradates. He was defeated, and lost his entire fleet, for which he blamed his quaestor, Publius Oppius, whom Cicero defended. Cotta himself was later condemned for extortion in his province, on the accusation of Gaius Papirius Carbo.<ref>Livy, Epitome, 93.</ref><ref>Eutropius, vi. 6.</ref><ref>Sallust, Historiae, fragmenta, iv.</ref><ref>Asconius Pedianus, In Ciceronis in Cornelio, p. 67.</ref><ref>Plutarch, "The Life of Lucullus", 5, 6, 8.</ref><ref>Cicero, In Verrem, v. 13, Pro Murena, 15, Pro Oppio, fragmenta p. 444 (ed. Orelli).</ref><ref>Cassius Dio, xxxvi. 23.</ref><ref>Appian, Bella Mithridatica, 71.</ref><ref>Valerius Maximus, v. 4. § 4.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. II, pp. 88, 92 (note 1), 111.</ref>
  • Gaius Aurelius M. f. L. n. Cotta, a distinguished orator, praised by Cicero. During the Social War, he had supported the cause of the allies, and was subsequently exiled until 82 BC. Consul in 75, he attempted to reverse one of Sulla's most onerous laws, arousing the ire of the optimates. He was granted a triumph for his successes as proconsul of Gaul, but died from an old wound on the day before the ceremony.<ref>Cicero, De Oratore, i. 7, ii. 23, iii. 3, 8, Brutus, 49, 55, 86, 88, 90, Orator ad Brutum, 30, 38, Epistulae ad Atticum, xii. 20, In Verrem, i. 50, iii. 7, De Lege Agraria, ii. 22, In Pisonem, 26.</ref><ref>Sallust, Historiae, fragmenta ii., p. 206 (ed. Gerlach)</ref><ref>Appian, Bellum Civile, i. 37.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. II, pp. 86, 88 (note 1), 96, 103, 111, 113.</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius M. f. L. n. Cotta, as praetor in 70 BC, carried the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, expanding the classes of persons who could serve on juries. He became consul in 65, after accusing the consuls elect of ambitus, and became a target of the First Catilinarian conspiracy. He was censor in 64, but the tribunes of the plebs compelled him to resign. He was an ally of both Cicero and Caesar.<ref>Asconius Pedianus, In Ciceronis in Cornelio, pp. 64, 67, 78 ff.</ref><ref>Cicero, In Pisonem, 16, In Verrem, ii. 71, In Clodio, 7, De Lege Agraria, ii. 17, In Catilinam, iii, 8, Philippicae, ii. 6, De Domo Sua, 26, 32, Pro Sestio, 34, Epistulae ad Atticum, xii. 21, De Legibus, iii. 19, Epistulae ad Familiares, xii. 2.</ref><ref>Suetonius, "The Life of Caesar", 79.</ref><ref>Livy, Epitome, 97.</ref><ref>Velleius Paterculus, ii. 32.</ref><ref>Cornelius Nepos, "The Life of Atticus", 4.</ref><ref>Plutarch, "The Life of Cicero", 27.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. II, pp. 127, 157.</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius M. f. M. n. Cotta, son of the consul of 74 BC, upon assuming the toga virilis, avenged his father by charging Carbo, his father's accuser, of extortion in his province, the same crime for which the elder Cotta had been condemned. Probably the same Cotta who as propraetor of Sardinia in 49, fled to Africa before the arrival of Caesar's legate, Quintus Valerius Orca.<ref>Caesar, De Bello Civili, I, 30.</ref><ref>Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, x, 16.</ref><ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 868 ("Aurelius Cotta", No. 10).</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius M. f. M. n. Cotta, probably a son of the propraetor Marcus, adopted a son of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, who became Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus.
  • Marcus Aurelius M. f. M. n. Cotta Maximus Messalinus, son of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, was adopted into the gens Aurelia. He was consul in AD 20, and an intimate friend of the emperor Tiberius. He gained a reputation for hostility and cruelty, causing a number of leading senators to accuse him of majestas. The emperor, however, defended him in a missive to the senate, whereupon Messalinus was acquitted. He was also the patron of Ovid.<ref>Pliny, x. 27.</ref><ref>Tacitus, Annales, ii. 32, iv. 20, v. 3, vi. 5 ff.</ref><ref name="Fasti Ostienses">Fasti Ostienses, Template:CIL, 245, 4531–4546, 5354, 5355.</ref><ref>Cassius Dio, lvii.</ref>
  • Aurelius M. f. M. n. Cotta, a nobleman who received an annual stipend from the Emperor Nero in AD 58, because he had dissipated his family estate in profligacy. He was doubtless the son of Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus.<ref>Tacitus, Annals, xiii. 34.</ref>

Aurelii ScauriEdit

  • Gaius Aurelius Scaurus, praetor in 186 BC, was assigned the province of Sardinia.<ref>Livy, xxxix. 6, 8.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 371.</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius M. f. Scaurus, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} in 118 BC, perhaps the same as the consul of 108.<ref>Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum, i. 863, ii. 785, a.</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius Scaurus,Template:Efn-lr consul suffectus in 108 BC. As a legate in Gaul in 105, he was defeated and captured by the Cimbri at the Battle of Arausio. Scaurus was slain by the Cimbric chief, Boiorix, when he warned his captors that they could not hope to defeat Rome.<ref>Livy, Epitome, 67.</ref><ref>Velleius Paterculus, ii. 12.</ref><ref>Tacitus, Germania, 37.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 540, 548, 550 (note 2).</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius (M. f.) Scaurus, a quaestor mentioned in Cicero's oration against Verres.<ref>Cicero, In Verrem, i. 33.</ref>

Aurelii OrestidesEdit

  • Lucius Aurelius L. f. L. n. Orestes, consul in 157 BC.<ref name="Fasti Capitolini"/><ref>Pliny the Elder, xxxiii. 3. s. 17.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 446, 447.</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius L. f. L. n. Orestes, consul in 126 BC, was sent against the Sardinians, over whom he triumphed in 122. Gaius Gracchus and Marcus Aurelius Scaurus served under his command. Orestes and his brother, Gaius, were orators mentioned in passing by Cicero.<ref>Livy, Epitome, 60.</ref><ref>Plutarch, "The Life of Gaius Gracchus", 1, 2.</ref><ref name="Cicero Brutus 28">Cicero, Brutus, 28.</ref><ref>Aurelius Victor, De Viris Illustribus, 72.</ref><ref name="Fasti Capitolini"/><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 504, 508, 511, 512, 514, 518.</ref>
  • Gaius Aurelius L. f. L. n. Orestes, and his brother, Lucius, were orators briefly mentioned by Cicero.<ref name="Cicero Brutus 28"/>
  • Lucius Aurelius L. f. L. n. Orestes, consul in 103 BC, with Gaius Marius as his colleague. Orestes died during his year of office.<ref name="Fasti Capitolini"/><ref>Plutarch, "The Life of Marius", 14.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 553, 562, 565 (note 1).</ref>
  • Gnaeus Aurelius Orestes, praetor urbanus in 77 BC, issued a decision that was appealed to the consul Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus. Lepidus sustained the appeal, negating Orestes' decision. Broughton identifies him with the consul of 71.<ref>Valerius Maximus, vi. 7. § 6.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. II, p. 88.</ref>
  • Gnaeus Aurelius Cn. f. Orestes, adopted by Gnaeus Aufidius, the historian, assuming the name of Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes. After he failed to win election as tribune of the plebs, he succeeded in obtaining the consulship for 71 BC. Cicero, however, suggests that his election was due largely to the lavish gifts that he distributed among the people.<ref>Cicero, De Officiis, ii. 17, Pro Domo Sua, 13, Pro Plancio, 21.</ref><ref>Eutropius, vi. 8.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. II, pp. 121, 125 (note 2).</ref>
  • Aurelia Orestilla, the second wife of Catiline, who reputedly slew his grown son in order to overcome her objection to their marriage. According to Cicero's correspondent, Marcus Caelius Rufus, Aurelia's daughter was betrothed to Quintus Cornificius.<ref>Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, 15, 35.</ref><ref>Appian, Bellum Civile, ii. 2.</ref><ref>Marcus Caelius Rufus, Apud Ciceronis ad Familiares, viii. 7.</ref>

Aurelii FulviEdit

  • Titus Aurelius Fulvus, the grandfather of the emperor Antoninus Pius, was legate of the third legion during the reign of Nero, and subsequently a supporter of Vespasian, under whom he served as consul suffectus circa AD 71, and governor of Hispania Citerior from 75 to 78. He was consul for the second time in 85, together with the emperor Domitian. At one time, he was praefectus urbi.<ref>Tacitus, Historiae, i. 79.</ref><ref>Alföldy, Fasti Hispanienses, 19 ff.</ref><ref>Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", pp. 190, 199, 200.</ref><ref name="Jones 52"/>
  • Titus Aurelius T. f. Fulvus, the father of Antoninus Pius, was consul in AD 89, for the first four months of the year.<ref>Fasti Potentini, Template:AE; 2003, 588; 2005, 457.</ref><ref>Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", p. 191.</ref>
  • Titus Aurelius T. f. T. n. Fulvus Boionius (Arrius?) Antoninus,Template:Efn-lr better known as Antoninus Pius, emperor from AD 138 to 161. He had been consul in AD 120, then distinguished himself as Proconsul of Asia, and was adopted by Hadrian shortly before the emperor's death.<ref>Julius Capitolinus, "The Life of Antoninus Pius".</ref><ref name="DGRBM AP">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 210–212 ("Antoninus Pius").</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius T. f. T. n. Fulvus Antoninus, a son of Antoninus Pius, who must have died before AD 138, as Antoninus had no living sons when he was adopted by Hadrian.<ref name="CD lxix 21">Cassius Dio, lxix. 21.</ref><ref name="DGRBM AP"/>
  • Marcus Galerius Aurelius T. f. T. n. Antoninus, another son of Antoninus Pius, must also have died before AD 138.<ref name="CD lxix 21"/><ref name="DGRBM AP"/>
  • Aurelia T. f. T. n. Fadilla, daughter of Antoninus Pius, and wife of Lucius Aelius Lamia Silvanus, died shortly after her father was appointed governor of Asia.<ref name="DGRBM AP"/>
  • Anna Galeria T. f. T. n. Faustina, another daughter of Antoninus Pius, married her cousin, Marcus Aurelius, and was empress from AD 161 to her death, about 175. She was noted for her extravagance and intrigues, which the emperor appears to have indulged, or at least tolerated.<ref>Cassius Dio, lxxi. 10, 22, 29, 31.</ref><ref>Julius Capitolinus, "The Life of Marcus Aurelius", 6, 19, 26.</ref><ref>Eutropius, viii. 5.</ref><ref>Eckhel, vii. 76.</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, born Marcus Annius Verus, a nephew of Antoninus Pius, by whom he was adopted on the orders of Hadrian in AD 138, and whom he succeeded as emperor from 161 to 180.<ref>Julius Capitolinus, "The Life of Marcus Aurelius".</ref><ref>Cassius Dio, lxxi.</ref><ref name="DGRBM MA">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 439–443 ("Marcus Aurelius Antoninus").</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius Verus, born Lucius Ceionius Commodus, was adopted by Antoninus Pius upon the latter's adoption by Hadrian in AD 138. He was appointed emperor together with Marcus Aurelius in 161, reigning until his death in 169.<ref>Cassius Dio, lxix. 17, 20, 21, lxxi. 1 ff.</ref><ref>Aelius Spartianus, "The Life of Hadrian", 23, "The Life of Aelius Verus".</ref><ref>Julius Capitolinus, "The Life of Verus", "The Life of Antoninus Pius", 4, "The Life of Marcus Aurelius", 4, 5, 7 ff.</ref><ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 817 ("Commodus", No. 4).</ref>
  • Annia Aurelia M. f. Galeria Lucilla, daughter of Marcus Aurelius, married the emperor Lucius Verus. When he died young, a rumour began that Lucilla had poisoned him. Her second husband was the general Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, whom she despised as her inferior. She joined a plot against her brother, the emperor Commodus, but after being detected was banished to Capreae, where she was put to death about AD 183.<ref name="Capitolinus MA">Julius Capitolinus, "The Life of Marcus Aurelius", 7, 26, "The Life of Lucius Verus", 2.</ref><ref>Aelius Lampridius, "The Life of Commodus", 4, 5.</ref><ref>Cassius Dio, lxxi. 1, lxii. 4.</ref><ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, pp. 824, 825 ("Annia Lucilla").</ref>
  • Annia Galeria M. f. Aurelia Faustina, daughter of Marcus Aurelius, and wife of Gnaeus Claudius Severus, consul in AD 167. Their son, Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus, was consul in 200.<ref>Birley, Marcus Aurelius, p. 102.</ref>
  • Titus Aelius Aurelius M. f., son of Marcus Aurelius, probably died young.<ref name="DGRBM MA"/>
  • Titus Aurelius M. f. Fulvus Antoninus Geminus, son of Marcus Aurelius and twin brother of Commodus, died at the age of four, circa AD 165.<ref name="DGRBM MA"/>
  • Domitia M. f. Faustina, daughter of Marcus Aurelius, apparently died young.<ref>Eckhel, vii. 76.</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius M. f. Commodus Antoninus, son of Marcus Aurelius, emperor from AD 177 to 192. After a promising beginning, he gave himself over to luxury, self-indulgence, and tyranny. He was assassinated at the end of 192.<ref>Cassius Dio, lxxii, Excerpta Vaticana p. 121 (ed. Sturz).</ref><ref>Herodian, i. 10–55.</ref><ref name="Capitolinus MA"/><ref>Aelius Lampridius, "The Life of Commodus".</ref>
  • Annia Aurelia M. f. Fadilla, daughter of Marcus Aurelius, married Marcus Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus.<ref>Gruter, Inscriptiones Antiquae, cclii. 8.</ref><ref>Muratori, Veterum Inscriptionum, 242, 3; 590, 4.</ref>
  • Vibia Aurelia M. f. Sabina, daughter of Marcus Aurelius, married Lucius Antistius Burrus.<ref name="DGRBM MA"/>

Aurelii GalliEdit

  • Lucius Aurelius Gallus, consul suffectus in an uncertain year between AD 128 and 133.<ref>Template:CIL.</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius Gallus, consul suffectus Ex. Kal. Jul. in AD 146.<ref name="Fasti Ostienses"/>
  • Lucius Aurelius Gallus, consul in AD 174.<ref>Template:CIL.</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius Gallus, consul in AD 198.
  • Lucius Aurelius Gallus, governor of Moesia Inferior from AD 201 to about 204.<ref>Dicționar de istorie veche a României, pp. 399–401.</ref>

Aurelii SymmachiEdit

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  • Publius Aurelius Pecuniola, a kinsman of the consul Gaius Aurelius Cotta, under whom he served during the siege of Lipara in 252 BC. As a result of his negligence, his camp was set on fire, and nearly captured. As a punishment, Pecuniola was scourged, and demoted to the rank of legionary.<ref>Frontinus, Strategemata, iv. 1. § 22.</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius, quaestor urbanus in 196 BC.<ref>Livy, xxxiii. 42.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 336.</ref>
  • Aurelius Opilius, a freedman who became a philosopher, rhetorician, and grammarian, and a friend of Publius Rutilius Rufus, whom he accompanied into exile at Smyrna, around 92 BC.<ref>Suetonius, De Illustribus Grammaticis, 6.</ref>
  • Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, a physician, perhaps named Aulus, rather than Aurelius. He probably lived in the time of Augustus, or at the latest in the mid-first century. He employed a scientific approach to medicine, and his treatise, De Medicina, in eight books, still survives.<ref>Columella, De Re Rustica, i. 1. 14.</ref><ref>Quintilian, xii. 11.</ref><ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 660, 661 ("Aulus Cornelius Celsus").</ref>
  • Lucius Aurelius Priscus, consul suffectus in AD 67.<ref>Template:AE.</ref><ref>Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Nero", p. 292.</ref>
  • Quintus Aurelius Pactumeius Fronto, consul suffectus in AD 80. He entered office on the Kalends of March, and held the consulate for two months.<ref>Fasti Septempeda, Template:AE; 2007, 106.</ref><ref>Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", p. 189.</ref>
  • Titus Aurelius Quietus, consul suffectus in AD 82. He served from the Kalends of September, perhaps until the end of the year.<ref>Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", p. 210.</ref>
  • Aurelia Messalina, the wife of Ceionius Postumius and mother of Clodius Albinus.<ref>Julius Capitolinus, "The Life of Clodius Albinus", 4.</ref>
  • Aurelius, a physician, one of whose prescriptions is quoted by Galen.<ref>Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locos Conscriptorum, v. 5, xii. 892.</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius Verianus, governor of Roman Egypt in 188.<ref>Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto", p. 302</ref>
  • Marcus Aurelius Cleander, a freedman of Commodus, whom the emperor entrusted with the maintenance of his household, and then the imperial bureaucracy. He enriched himself by selling magistracies, but following a grain shortage in AD 190, the praefectus annonae incited a riot against him. The emperor made no effort to defend his favourite, who was put to death to placate the mob.<ref>Herodian, i. 12, 13.</ref><ref>Cassius Dio, lxiii. 9, 12, 13.</ref><ref>Aelius Lampridius, "The Life of Commodus", 6, 7, 11.</ref>
  • Quintus Aurelius Polus Terentianus, governor of Dacia in 193.
  • Lucius Aurelius Commodus Pompeianus, consul in AD 209.
  • Marcus Aurelius Sebastenus, equestrian governor of Mauretania Tingitana from AD 215 to 217.<ref>Spaul, "Governors of Tingitana", p. 249.</ref>
  • Aurelius Philippus, the tutor of Severus Alexander, who afterward wrote a life of the emperor.<ref>Aelius Lampridius, "The Life of Alexander Severus", 3.</ref>
  • Lucius Julius Aurelius Septimius Vabalathus Athenodorus, king of the Palmyrene Empire.
  • Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus, an esteemed poet during the reign of the emperor Carus, and the author of Cynegetica, a treatise on hunting with dogs, most of which has been lost. Several fragments of his other works have survived.<ref>Wernsdorf, Poëtae Latini Minores, i. 3, 123, 128, 275</ref>
  • Aurelius Arcadius Charisius, a jurist, who probably flourished during the fourth century.<ref>Digesta, 1. tit. 11. s. un. § 1; 22. tit. 5. s. 1, 25; 48. tit. 18. s. 10; 50. tit. 4. s. 18.</ref>
  • Sextus Aurelius Victor, a Latin historian of the fourth century, and the author of several important historical and biographical works. He was governor of Pannonia Secunda under the emperor Julian, and prefect of Rome in AD 389 under Theodosius I.<ref>Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus, 20.</ref><ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1256 ("Sextus Aurelius Victor").</ref>
  • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, a jurist, poet, and Christian philosopher of the late fourth and early fifth century.<ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 557–559 ("Aurelius Clemens Prudentius").</ref>
  • Aurelius Onesimus, a legionary in the Legio I Illyricorum.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite book</ref>

Stemma of the Aurelii CottaeEdit

Stemma made from Münzer and Badian.<ref>Münzer, Aristocratic Parties, p. 295.</ref><ref name="Badian 64">Badian, Studies, p. 64.</ref>

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