Caecina

Caecina ( Etruscan Ceicna ) was the name of an Etruscan family from Volterra , who continued to exist after the incorporation of Etruria into the Roman Empire as a nomen gentile of a respected family ( Caecina gens ) that had existed since the 1st century BC. Several senators . The feminine form of the name was Caecinia .

Well-known bearers of the name were:

• Aulus Caecina , landowners from Volterra, for Marcus Tullius Cicero 's speech Pro A. Caecina held
• Aulus Caecina (writer) (1st century BC), son of the landowner Aulus Caecina
• Aulus Caecina Alienus († around 79), military leader of the emperor Vitellius
• Aulus Caecina Severus (* around 45 BC; † after 21 AD), suffect consul, military leader of Germanicus
• Aulus Caecina Tacitus , probably consul in 274
• Aulus Caecina Paetus , conspirator under Claudius
• Gaius Caecina Largus, suffect consul in 13
• Gaius Caecina Largus , consul in 42
• Flavius ​​Caecina Decius Basilius , consul in 463

literature

• Hans Georg Gundel , Rudolf Hanslik : Caecina. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 989 f.
• Friedrich Münzer : Caecina 2ff . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1236 f.