The gens Vetilia, also written Vecilia, was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens never attained much importance in the Roman state.[1]

Origin

The Vetilii were probably of Etruscan origin, their nomen being Latinised from the Etruscan Vetlnei.[2]

Members

  • Gaius Vetilius, praetor in 147 BC, was sent to Spain, where after initial successes against the Lusitanians, he was defeated by Viriathus near Tribola, and slain.[3][4][5]
  • Vetilius, a leno, or pandar, to whom a certain Juventius left a legacy. The praetor Quintus Metellus refused Vetilius' claim for the property on account of his unsavoury occupation.[6]
  • Publius Vetilius, described by Cicero as a relative of Sextus Aebutius, was one of the witnesses in the trial of Aulus Caecina Severus.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1249 ("Vetilius").
  2. PW, Vetilius.
  3. Appian, Hispanica, 61–63.
  4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1269 ("Viriathus").
  5. PW, Vetilius 1.
  6. Valerius Maximus, vii. 7. § 7.
  7. Cicero, Pro Caecina, 9
  8. PW, Vetilius 2.

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