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Marcus Antonius, one of the most well known members of the gens.. The gens Antonia was a Roman family of great antiquity, with both patrician and plebeian branches. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Titus Antonius Merenda, one of the second group of Decemviri called, in 450 BC, to help draft what became the Law of the Twelve Tables.
A member of the plebeian gens Antonia, Antony was born in Rome [2] on 14 January 83 BC. [3] [4] His father and namesake was Marcus Antonius Creticus, son of the noted orator Marcus Antonius who had been murdered during the purges of Gaius Marius in the winter of 87–86 BC. [5] His mother was Julia, a third cousin of Julius Caesar.
Marcus Gallius, the adoptive father of Axianus, and possibly a brother of Quintus Gallius, the praetor urbanus. [6] Marcus Gallius M. f. Axianus, adopted from the Axia gens. [7] Marcus Gallius Q. f., praetor in an uncertain year, and a supporter of Marcus Antonius. He adopted the future emperor Tiberius in his youth, and left him a considerable ...
The gens Oppia was an ancient Roman family, ... Marcus Oppius Capito, propraetor circa 40 BC, is named on coins issued by Marcus Antonius. [49] [50] Oppius Chares, ...
The gens Fulvia, originally Foulvia ... Their daughter, Fulvia, was the wife of Marcus Antonius. Fulvius received the nickname Bambalio on account of a hesitancy in ...
The gens Canidia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome, first mentioned during the late Republic. It is best known from a single individual, Publius Canidius Crassus , consul suffectus in 40 BC, and the chief general of Marcus Antonius during the Perusine War .
The gens Munatia was a plebeian family at Rome. ... He befriended Marcus Antonius, then Octavian, proposed the title of Augustus for him in 27 BC, ...
The gens Grania was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. ... and the orator Marcus Antonius became the subject of numerous anecdotes by the satirist Lucilius, ...