Gens Aquillia
The
gens Aquillia was an ancient Roman family both patrician and plebeian. On coins and inscriptions the name is almost always written
Aquillius, but in manuscripts generally with a single
l. This gens was of great antiquity. Two of the Aquillii are mentioned among the
Roman nobles who conspired to bring back the
Tarquins after their expulsion in
509 BC; and a member of the house,
Caius Aquillius Tuscus, is mentioned as
consul as early as
487 BC, the first of a long series. The
cognomens of the Aquillii under the republic are
Corvus,
Crassus,
Florus,
Gallus,
Tuscus.
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Smith, William (editor);
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,
"Aquillia Gens",
Boston, (1867)
Livy,
Roman History,
ii. 4--
