Asellia gens

The Asellia gens was an ancient Roman clan.

Members

Republican

• Marcus Asellius, Tribune of the plebs in 422 BC^[1]
• Marcus (M. f.) Asellius, senator in 44 BC and friend of Cluentius of Pro Cluentio.^[2]
• Lucius Asellius, praetor in 33 BC.^[1]
• (L. f.) Asellius, Praetor suffectus in 33 BC.^[1]

Imperial

• Asellius Sabinus, awarded 200,000 sesterces by emperor Tiberius for a dialogue between a truffle, a fig-pecker, an oyster, and a thrush.^[3]
• Asellius Aemilianus, supporter of Pescennius Niger.^[4]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon; Patterson, Patterson (1951). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic: 99 B.C.-31 B.C. American Philological Association. p. 533. ISBN 9780891308126.
2. Tahin, Gábor (2013). Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 165. ISBN 9783319017990.
3. den Hollander, William (2014). Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome: From Hostage to Historian. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (New ed.). BRILL. p. 109. ISBN 9789004266834.
4. Kulikowski, Michael (2016). The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine. History of the Ancient World. Vol. 1. Harvard University Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780674659612.